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Re:Firms that adopt AI grow headcount 10% over the two years... by protocolture on Thursday July 02, 2026 @06:26PM (#48768181)
>Ignoring for a second that net jobs and employment rates aren't really the same thing.

Net Jobs can increase while their percentage of all jobs drops. These things aren't necessarily linked or related. There isnt really a built in expectation that banking for 10 million people needs 10 times less staff than banking for 100 million people.

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Re:Firms that adopt AI grow headcount 10% over the two years... by Retric on Thursday July 02, 2026 @08:58PM (#48769368)
Demand scales with population, if the average person talks to a bank teller for 10 minutes a month having 10x the number of people doesn’t lower that number.

If automation doesn’t cost jobs, then growing the population shouldn’t change the overall employment rate meaningfully.

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