Here I was thinking this would be an article about how the education system fails to educate our children on how the world and the economy actually works instead of an idealization from yesteryear.
Indeed. It's hard enough to define curriculum around the world as it exists right now, so how are we to steer this big ship toward designing curriculum for the world to come?
The answer is that we (very probably) can't - so we should focus on preparing our young people to be resilient, flexible, and motivated.