[danso]

Well, many of the jobs that have been lost are of the legacy type: jobs in which the creations of Gates, Jobs, et al. have made obsolete. At a previous company I worked for, each executive had his/her own scheduling and appointment secretary. While that may have been necessary back in the day before easy-to-use, syncable-with-your-mobile-device calendars were developed, the jobs that managed such tasks were the first on the chopping block. In fact, those jobs only continued to exist because it was more of a (emotional/sentimental) cost to cut them than to just keep them.

After the company trimmed heavily during recession and bosses got used to doing their own calendars there was no justifying hiring for these secretarial positions again. Sure, talented young out-of-college kids may have found new types of work, but not these former secretaries.