It's not a matter of creating or destroying jobs. It's a matter of productivity. During the past 200 hundred years, employment rates have stayed more or less th

It's not a matter of creating or destroying jobs. It's a matter of productivity. During the past 200 hundred years, employment rates have stayed more or less the same (compared to the revolutionary improvements in standards of living we have accomplished). What has gone up is our producitvity. Sometimes improved productivity creates jobs (through new business) and sometimes it destroys them (people become redundant) but for society overall it's a net win.