It's year 2030. The factory floor your father worked with 20,000 employees on is run by four people supervising a fleet of robots. The call centre that used to employ 300 people in your town now employs 2, mostly to handle the cases where the agentic AI flags genuine human distress and escalates. The accounting firm down the street folded into a single advisor and a system that does what 40 people used to do.