Former Cosby show star bagging groceries and job shamed.

Couple of things ...

1) As noted in the OP's link, Geoffrey Owens is still a working actor. Plenty of one-off TV credits, including as recent as 2017 (an episode of Elementary). Also plenty of stage work. Owens probably doesn't own his own private jet or anything ... but neither is he eating out of garbage cans.

2) This Twitter dust-up has gotten Owens A LOT of attention. Owens, going by the photos, seems to have a type. The older, wisened, seen-it-all African-American father figure. Think Laurence Fishburne. Charles Dutton. The late Ron Glass (the chaplain on Firefly). Would anyone be surprised to Geoffrey Owens on a 2019 episode of Blackish as one of the parents' black-sheep uncles or something like that? Or as that hard-arsze professor type in some college-set drama? Walking the sidelines in the next big sports biopic?