My son brought up a good analogy using blacksmiths. They use to be the experts in manufacturing tools and other useful things then factories came along and at first the quality and output wasn't that great. Factories started improving and pretty soon no one needed blacksmiths and no blacksmith could match the output of a factory. When the blacksmiths weren't getting any work people would probaly say "well go work for the factory" to which a blacksmith would reply "but a blacksmith is who i am, i don't want to just pull a lever and push a button and out comes a part. How can you truly know it was made with care unless i do it myself by hand?".

I thought it was a pretty insightful point coming from a 16 year old boy (being a former 16 year old boy myself).