[gruez]

>Don't look at the hundreds of thousands of tech employees fired in the past 2 years.

I can't tell whether this is satire. What you're describing is exactly how economy-wide metrics are supposed to work. People quoting them aren't claiming that it's sunshine and rainbows for everyone, just that for the entire economy as a whole (ie. for the average worker), things are going pretty well right now.

[TrevorJ]

"a recession is when your neighbor loses his job; a depression is when you lose yours"