Has the fundamental change in production relations led to the failure of the social contract?

It feels like experiencing a species differentiation. The current trend is that the absolute elite of fewer than 1000 people are fully accelerating the development of certain technologies and speeding up escape. They aim to accumulate enough technological capital within their lifetime to cause a qualitative change, completely leaving behind the rest of humanity, so that no society is needed anymore.

In the past, agricultural reclamation relied on people farming the land; more people meant more grain. In industrial society, it relied on people producing and consuming, and the larger the population under control, the better, as capital only makes sense then.

The current trend is decoupling. When top-tier technologies can achieve self-circulation of energy, manufacturing, and intelligence, once that critical point is reached, the remaining billions of people are no longer resources or customers, but become a burden.