Alain de Botton is the son of a millionaire Swiss banker and lifelong trust fund baby going from boarding school to prep school to graduating from an Ivy League institution completely disconnected from economics of the real world.

This quote

we still don't know how relationships work. This could be a trillion dollar business.

and this quote

this psyche-related work deserves to become a huge and legitimate part of the world economy, worth as much as the cement trade or the lumber business.

really drive that home.

The second quote is where the statist agenda comes in. At first, he proposes "society" and employers to re-evaluate jobs and industries not by their utilitarian value but by the amount of feels they bring. While silly, it's not exactly statist. However he goes so far as relabeling the "extraordinary rate of unemployment [amongst Arts graduates]" as "misemployment", blaming those darn capitalist employers for not hiring them; but someone should. "We" should make them! It not only should be but "deserves to be worth as much" he claims. He wants "society" to start collectively funding the Feels Department because they could be "totally practical". But why wouldn't we do that by ourselves you ask if it truly was? Botton has an answer!

we haven't collectively woken up to what culture could really do for us and how useful and totally practical it could be.

So if we haven't as a society "woken up" to the wonders of Humanities, we should make that happen! This video is not a call on the every man to accept Liberal Arts as a functional or profitable major, it's a call on governing bodies to force them on society on a global scale to be funded at the level of international/global trade.