1. Employees in low-wage jobs saw the biggest decline in employment. Employment among low-wage employees decreased by 11.7 percent from February 2020 to February 2021, from 28.1 million to 24.8 million. This contrasts to a 5.4 percent drop in employment for middle-wage employees, who lost 5.5 million jobs during the same time.
2. Looking at the workforce as a whole, one of the more contentious issues surrounding the effects of computers on employment is that is creates and destroys jobs at different ends of the economy. Computers tend to create high-paying, high-skill technical jobs and destroy low-paying, low-skill jobs.
3. More than 2.5 million Alphas are born every week and by 2025 there will be almost two billion of them. Born to digital technology like it's a fifth element of nature, Alphas will be the wealthiest, the most intensely educated and most dynamic generation that human society has yet seen.
