Why can't we just make the people with the means of production (land and money) pay for the right to own them? You wouldn't need to steal the factory, in fact you wouldn't even want to.
This is basically my theory. It’s complicated because the sum of all the money of the bottom 90% of people is still way way less than the value held by the top 1%. So you can’t just have them buy everything. They can’t afford it.
However we don’t need to buy everything. We can buy some of it, and build other parts from scratch for cheap, and skip some parts of it entirely because lots of manufacturing capacity goes towards making things which don’t really materially improve peoples lives.
Under this scenario, you still fight over control of land and intellectual property. Control of land is essentially political. I think we should find ways to distribute land to all people. And I think we should abolish or severely limit intellectual property restrictions.
However we don’t need to buy everything. We can buy some of it, and build other parts from scratch for cheap, and skip some parts of it entirely because lots of manufacturing capacity goes towards making things which don’t really materially improve peoples lives.
Under this scenario, you still fight over control of land and intellectual property. Control of land is essentially political. I think we should find ways to distribute land to all people. And I think we should abolish or severely limit intellectual property restrictions.