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.