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<a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/18/404991483/how-machines-destroy-and-create-jobs-in-4-graphs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR Planet Money</a> via <a href="http://www.visualcapitalist.com/how-machines-destroy-and-create-jobs/?utm_content=bufferdd7ad&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visual Capitalist</a>:
There were 10 million farmers in America in the early 20th century.
Now there’s closer to one million, and yet those farmers produce way more food. Technology may have “killed off” the majority of farm jobs, but at the same time new technology created jobs in the service, blue collar, and white collar industries.