in terms of setting federal policy, are SV software startups really net job creators for the economy? when we think of them from the perspective of "software ea

in terms of setting federal policy, are SV software startups really net job creators for the economy? when we think of them from the perspective of "software eating the world" arguably they make a lot of jobs obsolete, perhaps an order of magnitude greater in terms of number of jobs destroyed vs created. that's not to say the jobs destroyed were great jobs, or that jobs should be saved at any cost, but as a social problem, i'm interested in how much structural unemployment we now see is a result of technical innovation, versus secular shifts in demand (less housing demand, etc.)