So the economic definition of employment and work and output is ever changing and GDP is not the only or even best measure. It would seem that in some cultures the impact of technology on jobs has not been so marked as in Europe. Technology in Europe is applied mainly to increasing productivity. Increasing productivity has meant that machines produce and distribute artefacts for consumption for less financial cost for the investor. In a world where artefacts can be distributed globally, then people who will exchange their resources for less value than elsewhere will be contracted by buyers.
Global markets enable buyers of labour to move employment from one place to another.
Underlying concepts of markets are exchange, competition and symmetrical information. Moves to improve the efficiency of market mechanisms by the reduction of intervention by governments have merely favoured one group over another. The system is not understood. The various measures and indicators used to detect the operation of the system and even to try to control it, are incomplete. Humankind has probably survived thus far because of its natural competitiveness, the willingness to compete for resources both with other animals and with each other.