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by Mountain_Skies 159 days ago
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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Statistically speaking, I'd take the worst of any hundred government bureaucrats over any single billionaire as far as "terrible humans" go.
how are the means of production going to be taken? They have direct control of all of the robots.
Until Congress passes a law nationalizing their company, and forces them to sell their company to a holding company owned by the government.
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.
Are robots immune to explosives, armor piercing rounds and EMP blasts in this scenario? Does the human military with all it's firepower cease to exist? Robot Inc is going to replace the US Armed Forces?
Yes