You're describing the effects of the 4th industrial revolution, a phase of capitalism we've been completely unprepared for, despite the many harbingers. I come from a party ( the Italian "Rifondazione Comunista" that, despite boasting to reshape communism for the 21st century, never moved beyond the Bolshevik tenet that only blue-collar workers are workers and all others ( especially intellectuals, the white collars) were the enemy. That experiment died miserably, I believe, because it failed to teach the masses that white is just a shade of blue (fascism has been much better at spreading this idea)—what alternatives do we have today? Where are the communist/socialist parties for the 21st century?