Once upon a time in history, ordinary people were useful to wealthy people. To operate their machines and so forth. Now wealthy people have machines to operate their machines. Ordinary people are no longer useful to wealthy people. And here we are.
@AnOldGuy what we have: countries where enterprises have to prove they couldn't find domestic workforce before employing a foreigner.
What we should have: companies that have to prove there was no human to do the job before setting up a machine.
Oh wait, that's good, I'll make it a root-toot...