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Today, we benefit from unprecedented abundance—thanks to automation, technological innovation, and global trade—yet wealth remains heavily concentrated. The current economic organization, rooted in the agricultural and industrial eras, is increasingly ill-suited for the 21st-century economy. As automation reduces the capacity of individual effort to generate wealth, inheritance and capital accumulation have become the primary avenues for prosperity, undermining the traditional "work your way up" narrative and the American Dream.