> There are more people working in telecomms now than there were when we had buildings full of switchers. I don't think that's true. This blogpost [0] says the

> There are more people working in telecomms now than there were when we had buildings full of switchers. I don't think that's true. This blogpost [0] says there were 1.3m telephone operators in the U.S. in 1950. This BLS data [1] says that there are about half that many people in the entire telecom industry today. [0]: https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2020/02/telephone-switchboard-operators-rise.html https://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2020/02/telephone-... [1] https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag517.htm https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag517.htm