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If the means of production are taken from the billionaires and given to the government, how long would their wealth last? Not sure handing the means of producti
by Mountain_Skies 9mo ago
If the means of production are taken from the billionaires and given to the government, how long would their wealth last? Not sure handing the means of production to a government would be a viable solution as politicians and bureaucrats are humans and often very terrible humans at that, but I don't see how billionaires could continue to last very long once they no longer have control over anything other than a declining number of currency units.
- beeflet 9mo agohow are the means of production going to be taken? They have direct control of all of the robots.
- NortySpock 9mo agoUntil Congress passes a law nationalizing their company, and forces them to sell their company to a holding company owned by the government.
- beeflet 9mo agoThe government won't be able to force Robot Inc. to do anything. Robot Inc. has control of the robots, and the government has control over words on paper.
- danaris 9mo agoStatistically speaking, I'd take the worst of any hundred government bureaucrats over any single billionaire as far as "terrible humans" go.