I paid to study technology and land a career in that field; not 'waste my money and end up forced back into either retail or food service anyfuckingway'. I'd sooner neck myself in the street than go back to that.

And I paid to study chemistry just to have the rug pulled and nearly all jobs that I qualified for off-shored, having to compete with PhDs just for entry-level jobs. My first career was over before I got a chance to start it. Fortunately, it was a very technical field of study and I was able to leverage it to "fall back" into the tech industry.

If shit happens, don't off yourself. There's always hope. "The world isn't fair", is a problem statement, not a justification. And we're engineers. You've got this shit.

Then where are those new jobs? Where they at tho? Why do unemployment numbers keep going up after these AI-borne layoffs? Or, lemme guess, we started slashing actual human positions for Akinator and Cleverbot implementations but never had the fix action for lost human jobs even drafted up, let alone implemented, didn't we?