The displacement debate has historically run on a capability track: can AI do the job as well, cheaper, faster? That track has a clear endpoint — if yes, the economic logic prevails. But the consciousness argument operates on a different track entirely, one where capability is beside the point. The claim being assembled in Bluesky's labor communities is that the category distinction between human and machine is prior to any efficiency comparison . You cannot win a capability argument against someone who is making a kind-of-being argument. That's the strategic…