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...