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The Agency Gap

First used: September 2026

Definition

The widening divide between people who move with both direction and magnitude and people who drift. Because agency and its absence both compound, the gap grows from individual outcomes into a demographic, economic, cultural, and finally geopolitical force, one that averages conceal because the median describes drift while the tails build the future. The agency gap is not just a problem but a forecast.

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