[tbrownaw]

> Name a job that was created in the last 50 years - real jobs that employ at least 1 million people

C dates back to the early 70s, and computers weren't really ubiquitous until the 90s or so. So does computer programming in general make your cutoff?

Or does it date back to Babbage in the 1800s?

[Uehreka]

Programming is one of the only truly new job fields in the last century. But despite growing up right alongside the automation/offshoring of manufacturing, it wasn’t able to absorb the labor coming from that sector. Labor is not a fungible thing that can easily move from one column to another, that’s a big part of the problem with any sudden massive change in the nature of labor.