> Who is going to pay laid off software engineers to spend time on inventing anything? Over my career, I've known many software engineers who were laid off. Th

> Who is going to pay laid off software engineers to spend time on inventing anything? Over my career, I've known many software engineers who were laid off. The ones I kept track of: 1. got another job, sometimes in another field 2. started their own business 3. retired 4. became a consultant