craftsmen/artisans vs Cheap goods

[Bugbear]

I stand by my statements. There are plenty of fishers, hunters, bakers, ranchers, farmers, and craftworkers in this country.

[DWFII]

I stand by my statements. There are plenty of fishers, hunters, bakers, ranchers, farmers, and craftworkers in this country.

Yes, of course there are. Maybe I'm just showing my age, but there are far, far less of them today than there were last year...or ten years ago...or when I was a boy. And if we look at the history of this country...as malleable as some would like history to be...there isn't a fraction of the "fishers, hunters, bakers, ranchers, farmers, and craftworkers" in and among the general population as there was 100 years ago.

And the trend is downward. Ever downward. Never once has it reversed itself.

When I think of the millions of people living in and around New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland, etc., and the way our population has, since the beginning of the 20th century, steadily and irrevocably moved off the land and concentrated itself in urban warrens, I might have to re-think my 10% estimate. That may be too high.