While it's something with a myriad of causes, the main one to me is the decrease of real wages for the middle class, not just consumer culture. Some products a

While it's something with a myriad of causes, the main one to me is the decrease of real wages for the middle class, not just consumer culture. Some products and services managed to decrease in price to match this, and but the culture of craftsmanship had to be sacrificed to match lower purchasing parity. Product culture ends up being the culture in which the middle class are engaged in.