AI has created more US white-collar jobs than it has replaced, argues blogger
morqon · x · 2026-09-07
Blogger morqon observes that, so far, AI has created more white-collar jobs in the US than it has supposedly replaced. If this is creative destruction, he argues, there is currently more creation than destruction — a counterpoint to the prevailing job-loss narrative.
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