Exactly. Machine learning is an inequality-expanding lever just like many other forms of capital. This is one of the reasons Google et al are so dangerous.
This is just the Luddite fallacy repeated over and over. By this logic, we should never develop new informatic methodologies, we should never develop new forms of analysis, we should never develop new software – because of economies of scale exist.
I'll the state the obvious: that's stupid. There's no way to soften that blow.