I wonder the extent to which it happens now. However, I have little doubt that it won't only increase over time. I am sure that Google has visions of replacing call centers with their technology. Perhaps a certain percentage of people on the planet have no chance of meaningfully partaking in the global economy, as they will never possess a skill that hasn't been subsumed by expanding capabilities of technology.
that's been a realization for a while. This insistence that their must be a hierarchy and competition is incompatible with positive applications of technological advances at this point. Then couple that with the sheer mass of people who are technologically ignorant; humans are being left behind. I think there will be some sort of human psychological tipping point where we make a decision on the spectrum of willful cooperation for the sake of humanity to allow further technological development or forced operation at the hands of a few for self serving goals through technological development. Something like that.