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.

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danaris 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Statistically speaking, I'd take the worst of any hundred government bureaucrats over any single billionaire as far as "terrible humans" go.

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beeflet 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

how are the means of production going to be taken? They have direct control of all of the robots.

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NortySpock 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Until Congress passes a law nationalizing their company, and forces them to sell their company to a holding company owned by the government.

	▲	beeflet 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The 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.