Less educated? No. Less skilled workers in manufacturing and fabrication through automation? Yes. It was part and parcel of cost cutting of labour. Even Charlie Chaplin made a point of it.
In modern times, things have gotten more complex though, because of technological advances. Not that it stopped western "capitalists" from cutting labour costs, by instead opting to outsource labour to communist China.
There's that pesky dialectical materialism showing its ugly face again.