Of course. And AMEN TO THAT!
However,
It is the oligarchy's plan that we more overtly become OWNED PROPERTY of theirs--at least of the various multi-national corporations--as their serfs and more likely slaves. They think the idea of us having our own free will and doing what we want is inefficient as well as a threat to their tyranny, their power.
They're right, especially the last part.
What they fail to recognize, is that in some unplanned, non-centrally-controlled, muddling way, humankind has succeeded in making advancements in garages and workshops and homegrown labs, without their central planning, in fact advancements that all too often they railed against, refused to fund research into, that only through the unfailing belief, perseverance, and diligence of their creators were made at all. Impediments are placed in the way whenever possible, from zoning laws to other legal barriers, with excuses from maintaining property values to the public safety.
Of course, the members of the oligarchy commonly and promptly will steal those ideas, once proven, and claim them the result of their personal genius (while the money rolls in).
It is no accident that we have gone from a culture which crafted engines and vehicles in their backyard workshop to people who can't turn a wrench, from scratch building airplanes to wishing for that flying car (maybe in another 50 years), from building our own cars to regulations that won't permit such tinkering because they require systems too complex for the average person to work on. It's called control, be it economic or intellectual, it all boils down to controlling the worker drones like a piece of production equipment, and will end in the workers being discarded like a piece of worn out machinery when they are no longer useful.