Literally every 121 pilot today knows that getting furloughed for several years is the reality for anyone who gets hired at a major. It's been like this well over 5 decades now. It sucks, but there's no excuse for:

1. not being aware of the cyclical nature of this job
2. not prepared for 5-10 years on the street.

This is why we don't go to places like ERAU/UND and get ridiculous $300k degrees. We get other education in engineering/software/etc to diversify our skillset and we do side-hustles to diversify the income stream.

Unless you're getting picked up a legacy at age 23, by the time you get to that legacy, you should have at least one side-hustle up and running to pay your bills in the "oh ****" situations like we're in now that most of us didn't see coming.