Why would the rich need the proles to buy anything, when their automated factories would make anything they want for them? The thing is, the rich only have the

Why would the rich need the proles to buy anything, when their automated factories would make anything they want for them? The thing is, the rich only have the threat of violence then to keep poorer masses in check. Though there are many kinds of violence, disease, starvation, homelessness. The thing is, without the dictates of the rich, there will be places they would be unable or unwilling to reach. There, a socialism of even purer kind could start given enough automation. The problem would be hydraulic despotism. Resources like water, oil, metals would be hard to get.