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by TMWNN 639 days ago
>But excel eliminated need in multiple accountants. One accountant with excel replaced ten with paper.

From NPR: <https://www.npr.org/2015/02/27/389585340/how-the-electronic-...>

>GOLDSTEIN: When the software hit the market under the name VisiCalc, Sneider became the first registered owner, spreadsheet user number one. The program could do in seconds what it used to take a person an entire day to do. This of course, poses a certain risk if your job is doing those calculations. And in fact, lots of bookkeepers and accounting clerks were replaced by spreadsheet software. But the number of jobs for accountants? Surprisingly, that actually increased. Here's why - people started asking accountants like Sneider to do more.