What is happening and why don't we see it?

I saw this show called "The Year Million", well don't quote me on the name but if you wish to watch it you can find it on the Science Channel.  Two things happened, I had an epiphany and I became pretty disappointed in Western society.  Now I have been a big proponent of  western culture and capitalism.  So, at this point you should ask why Jesse (I am not a socialist)?
Lets look at the western culture and how deeply ingrained capitalism is in it, I mean this is what we've been told our entire lives but what if with the advancement of science and technology this should change.  What if in the quest for efficiency and managing the corporate bottom line, people really no longer matter.  Having employees is just to expensive.
I'm making a simple timeline of ideas and I'm leaving a lot out because this is a blog and not a book. So first the Ford industrialization and assembly line into American culture (aka Western Culture).  This had a huge effect on society but it also had a huge effect on individual craftsman.  You had individual craftsman who made things by hand, usually making high quality items.  The Fordilization (my own word) moved it to an assembly line, with items needing to be manufactured quickly so more machines needed to be created to make parts quicker. With more universal parts that are at and more efficiency in manufacturing you lower the costs. So at this point manufacturing changed from small individual shops to huge operations.

Then it moves to the beginning of the labor movement and how corporations and these factory owners began to watch there profit margins.  One of the biggest part of any companies budget can be employee salaries and benefits.  People are greedy, so if they can make more money they will do what they can to to cut overhead costs and increase the profit margin.  In itself is not a bad idea, they own the company and they should be able to make money.  Then if you look at the people you see that a company wouldn't want to allow labor to organize because as a group they could demand more, thus decreasing that bottom line.  There are two sides to this idea of Labor vs Corporations and I'm not really going to address this.
So, if Labor wins you have to find a way to bring your overhead down, because your hands are tied now with wages, benefits and other employee issues.  Well you focus then on better technology, you make it so it that you can manufacture things quicker and with fewer people, efficiency, efficiency and more efficiency.  Eventually, you can lower your employee numbers due to redundancy, you either have a machine to do it or the way you manufacturing has improved due to some technology.  You can pay those who are left more, making a few happy but overall your overhead goes down because you have fewer employees, especially over the long term with a decrease in benefits. As technology increases you need fewer and fewer people so this is a guaranteed way to cut overhead and increase your profit margin.
TO BE CONTINUED...

Why I have lost faith in Technology

It is amazing how many people love to tell everyone or at least me that technology will make our lives better. Cellphones, computers, dishwasher, etc... have all made our lives better but at what cost. Have we collectively looked into the future and tried to discern what we will lose as technology advances?  Are we just content at this moment with the new hot gadget that we can get for an easy monthly payment of 9.99 dollars, tax and special fees not included.  Then its outdated in a month if your lucky.  I understand, people are stupid, lazy and self involved but I cannot go down without voicing my opinion.
 Here is an example that I love talking about, the new scheduling software that Walmart and Sam's Club corporations use to increase efficiency of the store.  This also is supposed to help increase profits by decreasing wasted time by having extra employees who are not actively working.  So, if I understand how this program works and remember I am a self confessed Luddite, it goes something like this,  the program takes past data of peak purchasing times or when the registers where the most active.  It takes this information and sets schedules so that you have the minimum required employees to match the volume of potential people purchasing.
The problem is that it never seems to get it right.  Talking and watching employees you see that if you begin to get lines, which are not supposed to happen, employees have to be called from the floor to work the cash registers.  Then when you are trying to find someone on the floor for assistance you cant because they have been sent to help out in the front at the registers.  The floor people then get in trouble and have extra work because they have neglected there areas because the computer did not schedule enough people. 
What is not usually talked about is that the corporation has used this software to cut the cost of workers.  They have had to factor in the fact that they will have increased turn over rates in workers.  Also, the workers that are there are usually frustrated because people take out there agitation on those who work there.  So, why would you do such a thing in an already profitable business?  To make bigger and bigger profits and bigger and bigger bonus' for management.  This is the cornerstone of what truly is what will become the technological destruction of the middle and lower classes.