> you'll be left with are hoping that you don't need to go to the ER after your health insurance ends
This is a US-only problem. The majority of software professionals in the world do not reside in the US.
This is a US-only problem. The majority of software professionals in the world do not reside in the US.
> after your health insurance ends
While the ACA filled a lot of gaps, it's still possible to find yourself without insurance and without any insurer who will take you on - or being unable to afford it (which is what unemployment tends to do to people...), especially if you're above the cut-off limits for state and federal aid.
So the boring version: you will be left with the problem of a sudden loss of money as (concurrently) labor power vanes because LLMs don’t go on strike and you have no one to complain to since no one with any power has to care (see: LLMs don’t strike) that unemployed person #5468 today couldn’t pay their mortgage again and/or started on an opioid death-of-despair campaign.