As a software engineer, I often reflect on how much my own job prevents or cuts existing jobs for humans. At least in my case, it seems that cutting out human w

As a software engineer, I often reflect on how much my own job prevents or cuts existing jobs for humans. At least in my case, it seems that cutting out human work creates more jobs. Let's imagine I build a feature that makes it twice as fast for us to close a sale in our pipeline. Do we cut half our sales force? Of course not--we would rather keep all the people and make double the sales. This brings us even more revenue, which we use to hire more sales people and more software developers, growing the company and providing more jobs. Perhaps this simple logic can't apply to all cases, but I've certainly seen it apply a lot!