Please read the following to get a sense of how the ultrawealthy have betrayed their fellow citizenry.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/25/america-wealthy-class-betrayed-inequality
Please see the following to get a picture of how a neo-feudal society led by the ultrawealthy is reawaking on the planet.
https://nypost.com/2019/12/25/how-america-is-reverting-back-to-the-feudal-age/
https://prospect.org/economy/rise-of-neo-feudalism/
https://quillette.com/2019/06/19/what-do-the-oligarchs-have-in-mind-for-us/
I do read the stuff you reference.
" Virtually all their human resource emphasis relies on cultivating and retaining a relative handful of tech-savvy operators."
Since I'm one of those guys, who is quite poor but hanging on, and typing this as I wait for my electrician to show up.
I thought I'd add a comment.
People like me can put a large proportion of the population out of work.
We can design, build, program, and repair machines
you call them "robots" that can do a lot of the more of the tedious
tasks that historically we hired the less capable people to do.
Not everybody can do critical thinking and analysis.
The problem we all face is what do we do with the people we don't need?
The world keeps making them, and morally we have to recognize their rights.
I think that is the true challenge of the future.
Not what your race, culture, or past indignities were, but how to face a future,
where a significant part of the population is "useless".
This isn't Star Trek Next generation.
This is Hawaii, America, and the world.