在短期，刺激技术进步和创新的措施虽然有利于创造新利润及复苏，但对就业的总影响也不一定是正面，因为创新也有可能对传统行业带来创造性的破坏。
In the short run, even efforts to spur technological progress and innovation, which might generate recovery through new profits, are likely to have a negative overall impact on employment, owing to the creative destruction of obsolete industries.