Perhaps but I believe the trend of more and more wealth being concentrated in a smaller and smaller percentage of the population indicates that smaller is getti

Perhaps but I believe the trend of more and more wealth being concentrated in a smaller and smaller percentage of the population indicates that smaller is getting smaller and bigger is getting bigger. The future for most may very well be as 1099's forever moving between projects but I don't think the vast majority of them will match the income of their corporate-working predecessors. The post corporate world will for most be due to corporations jettisoning expensive human resources in exchange for less expensive resources available elsewhere rather than being due to a populist rush to return to the age of the craftsman.