The problem isn't no one will find work.

It's that there was a thriving core decades ago that supported a fraction of the people the software industry supports today.

> Plain old business websites, line-of-business internal software, desktop apps, embedded and IoT software, etc.

All experience a monumental retraction the likes of which our economy has never experienced the moments ads go away.

No industry, let alone some niche in tech, would be unaffected if Google and their ad-revenue driven efforts dried up tomorrow morning.

If you can't see that there is plenty fewer things to do for the economy to do if ads are curtailed, you need to broaden your horizons.

I can clearly see there are plenty of things to do for software engineers beyond advertising. But that was never germane to my point. What does concern my point is how many comparably compensating opportunities there are, how quickly they can transition to them, and whether or not those opportunities will be meaningfully less controversial (e.g. fintech).