Create value through artisan craft. Cottage industries, hand-made one-of-a-kind products. When the Star Trek replicator will be able create any product from a pre-defined library of patterns and templates, the new status symbol will be a hand-distilled liquor in a hand-blown glass, neither of which you can own unless you meet their makers in person.
How many people are suited intellectually and by talent to become artists? You really think most people who lose their jobs as taxi or truck drivers will become artists?
I am fairly far over on the right side of the IQ scale, and if I had to make a living as an artist or musician I’d be in serious trouble.