&gt;  Maybe a return to artisans lovingly crafting luxury goods?<p>Return?<p>At no point in human history have more people been wealthier than today, even as a percent of the population. Today, the artisans are already the rich who need not fend for their survival. Never has there been a time where the major of people need not sweat their brow to eat the next day, at least according to the economics of their time.<p>The rich have always enjoyed the luxury to pursue whatever interested them, including culture. And like I said, despite the doom and gloom, we have more rich people today than ever. Its just we also have way more poor working class who are getting worse with no correction in sight or reason.