You can disagree with the validity of the statistic but I would disagree that it is not tied to this discussion.
Technology is deflationary. The reason why there is any basis against the job loss is the fact that humans traditionally have been slow to adopt new technology. This is most evident with the baby boomers, the largest segment of the US population for decades.
They are dying off leaving a more technically advanced society.
Baby boomers is a bad stat.
they are the last of the analog generations.
with low neuroplasticity due to the world they grew up in.
Gen X is the 1st analog / digital generation and as the generation that built the modern world is the bridge generation that can guide humanity into the new technically advanced societies without losing their humanity.
Millenials are the workers / serf of the digital age that believe in aethism and used ageism to try and get rid of Gen X in the workforce.
Gen Z is the new generation that will build the 1st turning (we are in the 4th turning)
Only Millenials will be gutted by AI and I for one feel they brought upon themselves acting like a "laptop workforce" elite overlords of the world.
They will perish childish and sad.