I don't think that's even close to being true. There's tens of thousands of people employed in Hollywood at studio level production alone, much less indie leve

I don't think that's even close to being true. There's tens of thousands of people employed in Hollywood at studio level production alone, much less indie level. There aren't tens of thousands of film schools in the US. Sure, a lot of it is contract work, with lulls between jobs, but they're making income equivalent to a very solid middle class income.