I'll take Tom's realization at face value, and say this:
Everything changes. Industries go through ups and downs: new/changing economics, new/changing technologies. Hopefully, the good and talented people survive; with some luck, they usually do.
I knew a film editor who started out when you actually cut film. He did all right for himself. Then video/video editing came along; he was one of the first to jump on board, and he made a fortune. What you could charge in those days for a half hour industrial video and twenty videotape copies/dubs would make you blush. He built a good size company, and hired a lot of other editors. Then computer editing came along, and he wasn't the first to jump on board; he lost everything. He picked himself off the ground, and taught himself this new system. He'd did all right for himself. Now it's changing again: when I first did an hour tv programme with him using computer editing software, we had ten hard drives stacked one on top of another to get enough memory to hold the footage; that same size memory is now inside the laptop I'm writing this on.
I like relatively inexpensive public golf courses; I'd better, as that is what I play 90% of my golf on. I have to drive further and further from the city to get to those kind of courses (land costs, I suppose). If it's true that the economics of golf course construction no longer work, some of the architects on this board will be the first to know it; some of the golf players on this board will be right behind. Then owners and architects will have to find a different approach, and will have to change their expectations, as will players like me.
Peter