Agreed. I think we overlook what really happens when power gets concentrated in a place where it's easy to seize. You make the state own everything? Well, who o

Agreed. I think we overlook what really happens when power gets concentrated in a place where it's easy to seize. You make the state own everything? Well, who owns the state? All the people can't do that collectively, so you get some central authority. Once there's an authority, it attracts the least altruistic, most corrupt. It's really not even a problem with humans in general; it's a problem of statistics: There's going to always be some tiny fraction of really awful reasonably competent individuals. And the more power you concentrate, the more it's attractive to the very worst of us.