I enjoyed core essence of your parable, which is, increasingly people are giving up their skills for renting of same skills from the rich, inducing of course a transfer of wealth to the rich.

A good illustration of your parable is the shift from tools of Pure Mathematics to tools of Applied Mathematics for modeling of issues that exist in contextual disciplines, such as Economics and Finance.

Tools of Pure Mathematics are, by their very construct, contextual, are designed such that you can take an economic or financial space and reduce it to a mathematical space.

Only humans can apply tools of Pure Mathematics.

Applied Mathematics works much as AI. The algorithms and solutions all come pre-specified from Mathematics, do not have any input from Economics or Finance. In presence of this feature, with the algorithms and solutions fed into them, AI have capacity for implementation of tools of Applied Mathematics.

It is normative, however, that with Economics and Finance inherently contextual, a pre-specified one size fits all solution cannot be better than a solution that is adapted to a specific context.

The sub-text?

If Economics and Finance become rooted in Applied Mathematics, only proofs that can be verified by neutral AI will be accepted, meaning the human skill of formal theoretical modeling, which attains to it’s loftiest beauty in context of modeling that applies tools of Pure Mathematics, becomes a lost art and science.

If Pure Mathematics becomes a lost art and science, relative to AI, humans become expendable, and yet solutions generated by AI only can blow everything up, because absent solutions generated by Pure Mathematics, stability of solutions generated by Applied Mathematics is, in entirety, an unknown quantity.

So then, academics give up skills that are eminently human, and which cannot be replicated by AI, for renting of solutions verified by AI from those who own AI, which of course, will be Corporations. So now those supposed to be intellectual guardians of society become serfs of the corporations.

Then, of course, comes the inevitable end, when the AI, by virtue of progressive instability of their solutions, blow everything up.