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The lessons from this article are many, the 400,000 jobs lost book-keeping vs. 600,000 jobs gained accounting is a figure worth remembering if you are trying to
by Theodores 7y ago
The lessons from this article are many, the 400,000 jobs lost book-keeping vs. 600,000 jobs gained accounting is a figure worth remembering if you are trying to get some automation introduced somewhere.
There are parallels in many areas of customer service for instance. Anywhere where you can do a better job of helping the customer with knowledgeable staff that don't have to be doing so much mundane stuff.
- RachelF 7y agoTrue, but the figures can be misleading. The US economy is probably 4x the size it was in 1978, so without these productivity advances we'd need 4x as many book-keepers and accountants. Whether the economy could have grown to 4x the size without productivity advances like spreadsheets is a related question.
- mhh__ 7y agoAlmost 9x by GDP