Proactively splitting up the menial tasks so that everyone is doing a little bit, inasmuch as they are able to, for a few hours a day, a few days a week, and getting paid a full-living wage for it seems like the way to go. Or, everyone pulls a Xiu Xiang from Rainbows End and goes back to high school.

The main obstacle to this is the pride and ego of the people who've "made it" up until now. Let go. Let society have nice things, even if you have to reinvent yourself. I don't think that creativity is endangered; art, uh, finds a way.