> Denying private citizens the ability to have great wealth basically gives the Government a large scale monopoly on far out projects. Not necessarily. People

> Denying private citizens the ability to have great wealth basically gives the Government a large scale monopoly on far out projects. Not necessarily. People can still organize, collect wealth and build a large scale project themselves. Or the bureaucrats running companies can organize and together finance big projects. There are many other possibilities. > allow the private citizen to decide how to deploy the fruits of their work Assuming these really are their fruits, which is pretty disputable in case of very wealthy people. > it's always easier to play with other people's money I agree, and this is actually the reason why one person owning a billion may be more willing to invest to crazy projects than a thousand people owning million each.