The original chart makes it look like manifucturing jobs doubled from 1950 to 1980 and then fell by 90%. Your complaint is that the zero'd axis makes it look l

The original chart makes it look like manifucturing jobs doubled from 1950 to 1980 and then fell by 90%. Your complaint is that the zero'd axis makes it look like 1950 and 2010 aren't actually that much different seems weird to me, because the actual data seems to be that they aren't that different, and showing that is correct (rather than incorrectly hugely magnifying the differences)