I know, thats why I qualified it with "so as long as the gross job counts are replaced" Being a millenial, most people I've met in my age group are working in either retail or food service. Many of them also have 4-year degrees, just not in a business or technical field. One could say they should have made better educational decisions, but I would rather live in a world where we can celebrate the variety of human interests and endeavors, and not subject people to a lifetime of economic purgatory just because they didn't learn programming or whatever in school. I'm lucky because I happened to be legitimately interested in something that is very profitable in today's economy. Others are not so much, and I really feel for them. But the solution does not lie in dead-end jobs that give no kind of gainful employment.