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Take a deep breath. Calm yourself. Now, get those people who tell you to suck it up out of your life - they aren't good for you.
Next, realize you are not alone. I, for example, was a software engineer my entire career, and have been unemployed for over a year now. I have no prospects. I'm looking for other things to do, spending time outside, biking, etc.
I, too, am despairing, but I'm not going to check out, and neither should you.
Don't hate yourself. It isn't your failure. Don't hate at all. I don't know what to do either, but there are many of us and we need to find each other and band together for survival and community. If AI pans out as these greedy bastards want, everybody will be out here in the same place as us real soon, and that's how revolutions gain momentum.
Revolutions need leaders and visionaries. Maybe that can be people like us. It's not like we have anything to lose, is it?
Revolutions are built by people who have nothing else to lose.