[FredPret]

I agree that there's a lot of value in civics as you call it. I'm not saying it should be cut out.

But if it weren't for leaders, salespeople, and STEM, we'd still be throwing rocks at sabre-tooth tigers; naked, hungry, sick, and hoping for the best.

Nearly every good thing in our world exists because we invented it, or invented a way to use a natural thing. Everything in home ec and all of bookkeeping were created and spread by prime movers.

The past few centuries of economic growth were ushered in by the industrial revolution, a staggering increase in global wealth culminating with people so rich that they have time to question the value of STEM, and with so few problems that they think what we're living through right now qualifies as a political crisis.