The parent's question wasn't about if he should go work, but whether he and you and hundreds of thousands of others in the industry might have to resort to something like that, given future diminishing lack of other opportunity.
Your response sounds like "if you don't have faith" or something.
I think you may have misread my comment. The post asked "What is your move?". And my answer is that I guess I'd go work at McDonalds, in a world where the pay for that vs writing code were equivalent.
Do you want a longer form rant about how maybe this is a sign that we should care that other fields pay a livable wage, and that it was folly for tech workers to imagine ourselves as more deserving of big piles of money than other people?
It’s really interesting watching the upper class chafing against the beginnings of the same thing that’s been affecting the vast majority of humans on the planet for a while now.
Your response sounds like "if you don't have faith" or something.