Machine driven unemployment​​

Here is the number of employees at some of the world’s biggest tech companies on the day they reached $200B in market capitalization:

• Facebook (2014): 9,199 employees
• Microsoft (1998): 27,000 employees
• Apple (2010): 46,600 employees
• Alphabet (2012): 53,861 employees
• Amazon (2015): 165,000 employees
• Verizon (2014): 176,800 employees
• General Electric (1997): 239,000 employees
• AT&T; (2007): 302,000 employees

It is really makes you wonder how technology is changing the workforce.