I’m glad I’m not the only one bothered by this technicality. It seems everybody talking about how the American employment situation worked neglected to what degree individual employees could adapt to change. Economists always talk about how changes in technology or employment patterns have little long term impact, since a job pool will provide labor that is in demand, but “creative destruction” is not an instantaneous process, and the people hurt by it are the type of people that economists, politicians and business executives ignore, robbing them of the power needed to fix their situation.