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    It is not the case that A theory requiring only the reform of coercive global institutions like the WTO or IMF is neither utopian nor deeply counterintuitive to most reflective agents.

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    • 1.Structural power imbalances embedded in these institutions may resist meaningful reform; tinkering risks legitimating fundamentally extractive systems.
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    • 2.The claim conflates 'not utopian' with 'sufficiently ambitious'—modest reforms may be intuitive but fail to address systemic inequality adequately.
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    • 3.Most reflective agents may lack detailed knowledge of institutional mechanics, making their intuitions unreliable guides to what reform actually requires.
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    • 1.Most people already accept that institutions can be reformed rather than abolished, making gradualist institutional change intuitively plausible.
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    • 2.WTO and IMF reforms address concrete, identifiable harms (trade asymmetries, debt burdens) without requiring speculative assumptions about human nature.
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    • 3.Reflective agents across ideologies recognize institutional design matters; reform proposals appeal to this shared intuition rather than radical restructuring.
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