Marx and development

Personal Mastery
Marx does not see things like personal mastery - development of the self. Yet it appears on a personal level and at a larger scale also at the level of a society. There is development as the education transforms people, as a result development of intellectual property and the economy develops with the technological progress. Revolution is not the only midwife of historical change.
In fact the opposite was what he observes: the horrors of soul-grinding effects of the division of labour and deskilling was visible all around. Development occurred mostly in the upper classes and there was no way to get a complete critique of capitalism that would include their dynamics of power.
On bbc.com 3rd of  April 2013, commenting on The Great British Class Survey :" The sociologists said these two groups[the precariat and the elite] at the extremes of the class system had been missed in conventional approaches to class analysis, which have focused on the middle and working classes. "It claims that it is too simplistic to look at class as containing just education and income, "... suggesting that class has three dimensions - economic, social and cultural."
The structure and functions of the upper class evade the eye of scrutiny. Although its many facets were hidden they are kept so by the interests of the elite themselves.
Any such analysis seems to me to be completely missing. Does Marx really shut his eyes at this aspect because his wife was a noble?

Through the summation of peoples personal mastery it is possible to see how the capitalist society becomes leaner and meaner. It never becomes a system where everyone lives the life of a billionaire. Because those who are left without much education have their progress measured at a different rate (a very slow one) than the owners class.


Personal Degeneration
So the opposite would be the drive of humans to take easier routes, to cut corners. What if such reduction of abilities in a willful manner provides a constant grind on the process of achieving hidden
aims of the owners class? Does this effect suddenly disappear after the workers come to power? In fact it worsened!
On the bright side, the advantage of this drive is presented as the development of society and technology. Yet some time into this progress, this drive puts people into their misery, drudgery, monotony and stress. These problems are solved in yet another technology - the application of computers in creating Augmented Reality, and the gamification of everything that was so far boring.