You are being too literal here. Firstly, there's a large number of software devs that would do just fine in finance. A common refrain is that many of those who

You are being too literal here. Firstly, there's a large number of software devs that would do just fine in finance. A common refrain is that many of those who would have gone into finance over the past decade or two want into tech instead. Secondly, there's many other fields people could go into. People follow the money. They adapt their skills to those fields. This idea that "well devs will just work for peanuts" is absurd. Intelligent and talented people will just go elsewhere if the field is no longer a source of high incomes. Of course I expect it will continue to provide high incomes for quite some time. There are few things I can think of that wouldn't be improved by software, and as long as that holds true it means there's more demand for software.