alt Hacker NewsCorrect. The story isn’t correct even in the original formulation. US population increased by 50% from 1980 to 2010, and the economy became far more financialized. But the number of bank teller jobs barely grew during that period, even before the iPhone.
Yes, I was surprised that the ATM graphs weren't adjusted for population.
I used the Perspective tool in an image editor to give a rough idea of what the first graph would look like adjusted for population change:
https://i.imgur.com/jJlQcVh.png