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by Agebor 2049 days ago
Why not corporations? They would be owned by the market and compete against each other to offer best quality machinery.

Of course you still have the leadership class of people that could be corrupt, but that can be solved e.g. by sortition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

+ you need anti-monopoly laws and some solutions preventing competition-to-the-bottom (e.g. if marginal cost of service becomes 0, it may no longer make sense to compete for it, so it needs to enter some sort of maintenance mode to keep quality in check)

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It's possible sortition could be used but unlikely to be successful. Yes, there always is corruption in every institution - part of human nature. It's not going away, no matter what ruling class is in power.

My point is - how can someone express true happiness when they are controlled by others? With all these services, there would be no justification for betterment. It all sounds like an advertisement for centralized authoritatism - "We'll take care of your wants and dreams; you just give us your all".