Good comment, but I have to disagree with it.

The web and app stores are extensions of google/apple etc. There's people making money across the country and around the world.

The difference between auto workers and programmers is that programmers are not workers, but 'inventors'.

A better comparison is mechanical engineers in the 50s and programmers today.

Good mechanical engineers designed or started factories, and there was so much work that the backlog has still not been filled even today. The same can be said for programmers today.

There is the 'creative class' and everyone else. The true creatives never had a problem finding work, and that's the real 'education crisis'. Far too many 'creatively illiterate' being churned out by our failed education system.