Every economy tells a political story long before any election does. Long before manifestos are written or ballots are cast, power is already distributed — silently — through economic structure. Who earns, who waits, who bears risk, who is protected, and who absorbs shocks are not accidental outcomes. They are the quiet consequences of how an economy is designed.
Politics, in this sense, is not only what governments say or parties promise. It is what markets reward, what systems tolerate, and what institutions normalise.
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