>Gotta watch out for those profits, except they forget people also need money to buy their goods.

And then we get the great turn of it all. Where governments opt to just sign contracts with these companies. Just hook the money printer up directly to the investor class and skip all these middle class middle people and the requirement to build a business that can stand on its own two feet.

What gets scary with this is people like Peter Thiel and friends are building a world for fewer people pretty overtly. There's the famous clip of him where Thiel hesitates to predict if humans will survive in the technological future. Probably because in the back of his mind he hopes the population of the U.S. diminishes to a couple hundred thousand people if that living a life of technologically supported luxury, while the descendants of the wageslaves have died out by then and don't threaten the power structure.