In 1912, Congress spent three days cross-examining Frederick Taylor about who bears the burden of labor displacement. Sam Altman goes on Lex Fridman. The difference isn't incidental,the institutional framework that forced accountability during previous transitions is being structurally prevented from forming. The discourse about what AI is doing to work is being conducted entirely by the class capturing the gains. This essay is about why that's not an accident, and what it's going to cost.Scott Cunningham recently posted about watching Netflix for 3.5 hours while Claude designed a research project, collected data, chose an estimator, and wrote a paper he thinks could clear a top field journal. His response was genuine vertigo about his own epistemic obligations. What he didn't wonder about: the labor being trained. This essay is about why that's the only question the discourse knows how to ask.