Is the state going away sometime soon? Or it's going to stop intervening? Good luck with your $1 a day, "enslave the people" software tax. World of Warcraft ge

Is the state going away sometime soon? Or it's going to stop intervening? Good luck with your $1 a day, "enslave the people" software tax. World of Warcraft generates ballpark the numbers you are throwing out there, although they have some server costs and the game is getting a bit long in the tooth. If you want to keep your slaves you probably need programmers and designers continually improving the product, fixing bugs, maintaining compatibility with and fully utilizing OS and HW upgrades; otherwise, competition (both free and paid) will likely overtake you. If you are immune to competition, you could get hit with anti-trust action on three continents. Your hypothetical 4.67M subscribers surely aren't going to pay $365 a year unless they have an expected payoff in excess of that. When you buy something, does it make it less valuable to you that there are no serfs working hard, endlessly and forever to make it? If that's the case the Beatle's catalog shouldn't still be a multi-billion property, since "the Band" isn't hitting the studio any time soon. Is software less valuable than music, videos, books or other forms of content? Even if magically this never-updated software somehow keeps generating stable revenue forever without any ongoing costs (marketing? accounting? legal?), it still has a finite Net Present Value, with all its costs in the development phase. Are you suggesting there's a catastrophic limit on the allowed gain (NPV / total cost)? Why are investment bankers allowed unlimited upside on their investments without it posing an existential threat to the economy? As soon as you earn your nut, that's it, you're done spending money and engaging in new economic activity? You won't invest, start new projects, buy stuff? Start a spaceship company or solve malaria, maybe run for office or fund election campaigns?