Loading ...and 307k govt. positions that weren’t jobs anyway. Compare that to 2001,
https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2002/02/art1full.pdf
where factories alone eliminated 1,204k jobs.
Or 2,600k in 2007:
https://www.epi.org/publication/job_losses_ballooned_in_final_quarter_of_2008/
In fact, in the last ten years you’ve lost 41m jobs. So AI is pretty benign compared to all that.