Automation is spreading at an unprecedented rate. Factory jobs are all but gone. More automation has been installed in the last 10 years than in all the years previously.

If somebody cherry-picks data to show 'some job growth' somewhere, and claims that disproves that automation is hurting jobs, then they haven't tried to get a job in manufacturing in the last decade; and forget any chance at promotion because there's no path from 'menial floor box-mover' to anything like engineering or management.