This is hubris. I can think of many adults that know nothing of Calc and do very in life and work. Knowing basic accounting, being able to fix things around the house, being pleasant to work with, etc are far more important.
Those are totally useless skills. If you live in America and your only contribution to society is being pleasant, knowing how to fix things around the house, and basic accounting, then expect your livelihood to be replaced by someone willing to do your unskilled work overseas for a fraction of the cost in the very near future. Not to be harsh, but that's the reality.
Also, fixing things is highly skilled work and very hard to offshore.
Don't you mean the Plurinational State of Bolivia?
My undergrad was in a non-technical area and so I never had to take calc in undergrad. Having later learned it to solve problems, it has become clear to me that it would be preferable if everyone with a college degree knew calc. I was, in retrospect, wrong to have tried to avoid it.
I'm well aware we don't live in that world, unfortunately many people with a college degree also don't know write effectively, or perform critical analysis on texts, things I also thing should be part of being college educated.
> Knowing basic accounting, being able to fix things around the house, being pleasant to work with, etc are far more important.
I'm not sure how knowing calculus reduces these things.
Everyone needs to learn calculus because it opens up a gate into a form of beauty that no amount of work can ever satisfy.
The idea that people only need to learn what they need to live their external lives, those of work and interpersonal relations, is just wrong.
You need to learn calculus as part of your own internal life.