Another potential reason for why the industry might be dead!?

So I was talking to a credit card salesman yesterday who told me that he has done SEO in the past. But he advised me that this industry might soon be dead so maybe I shouldn't depend on it too much. Obviously, I asked for a reason to which he said, "It is only a matter of time when Google would start providing SEO services on its own".

And this dude was totally serious when he said this. *it was so hard to control my laugh*.