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Re:Silicon Valley Is Not Driving Jobs Growth by homogeneous on Friday December 04, 2015 @04:17PM (#10679196)
> in 2010, only 0.5% of the US labour force is employed in industries that did not exist in 2000

Well that doesn't seem too surprising, I can't really think of many industries that exist today that didn't in 2000.

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Re:Silicon Valley Is Not Driving Jobs Growth by staticint on Friday December 04, 2015 @05:09PM (#10679531)
For comparison, software developers make up about 0.7% of the labour force (2012)[1]. It is always surprising to me how small the industry actually is.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/s...

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