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Britain's water companies borrowed billions, paid it out to shareholders, and let the pipes rot. Now we're told there's no money to fix them. But the engineers exist. The materials exist. The need is overwhelming. What's missing isn't money. Money is just the record of a decision. Britain isn't broke. It's blocked.

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Every generation inherits not just the physical infrastructure of its predecessors but a set of assumptions about what is economically possible. In post-war Britain, those assumptions have shifted so dramatically that grandparents and grandchildren now inhabit entirely different economic universes while sharing the same national space.

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Two forces are converging on the global economy. AI is driving the cost of cognition toward zero. Climate change is driving the cost of physical stability upward. Together, they dissolve the foundations of the market economy we inherited. In the emerging economy, what matters is access to resources and the capacity to manage risk.

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