The secret of all is to invest in your talents (skills) which it seems you and yours have a good start.
Unless your region has an alienated working/lower class who will burn the intelligencia for bringing the world their dark craft, there is hope.
Anywhere there are markets there will be opportunities for the skillful.
If I were addressing your masses (in the hundreds of thousands) I would speak in my epic oratory voice (who has seen *it all) to invest in your own asses. Infrastructure and cooperatives you own. Trusts and communities among you who do not want to rent their lives. Do not follow blindly the intoxicating free for all of imminent western trends. These collapse when challenged as all else.
Owning your own everything is the best of any future.