>>I hear you. On The Other Hand, I wonder if technology has actually put more people out of work entirely - other jobs always seem to appear.....

Net/net i think it's about a wash , but entire job classes have vanished while some have been created.
When someone first talked to me about programming as a career, I thought he was suggesting that I work in TV.
There were no programmers then so that was a brand new classification.
On the other hand, does anyone remember telephone operators or typists? There were zillions of them.