And employers need employees to run a business
No they don't. They can almost always substitute capital. As AI gets better and better, this will only increase.
Just like you don't have to take algebra to understand the real world, or calculus.
In light of the (mis/dis)information pandemic, one or more classes in probability and statistics would do most people more good than studying either algebra or calculus.
BTW- People claiming to be Nigerian princes sent mail before e-mail existed.
FTFY.
There are more trees now than there have ever been in human civilization.
Tree farms and orchards don't have anywhere close to the biodiversity of naturally evolved forests. That's the entire problem: monoculture.
"Aww, if you make me cry anymore, you'll fog up my helmet." -- "Visionaries" cartoon