One underdiscussed scenario for tech-driven unemployment is financial industry, where computers replaced number crunchers but employment up.
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Relative employment (% of jobs in a year) of accountants has doubled since computers; absolute number is probably 5X.
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source for this? curious to see
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Not just financial services. Many people still imagine business owners slaving over their books; takes me a few hours/month.
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Perhaps they went into tax preparation. Frigging alchemical cryptographic formulae, that stuff.
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