&gt; Private ownership of this capital - which is what capitalism is all about - is then absolutely the problem<p>It&#x27;s only a problem if you can&#x27;t&#x2F;won&#x27;t tax. If you can tax owners of the capital and give away that money to other people (bureaucrats, army, unemployed, everybody) everything still works just fine. Everybody still has money to buy stuff and this keeps the game that capital owners play between themselves live.<p>The only way we can screw this up is to weaken the governments and strengthen the corporations to the point that governments won&#x27;t be able to tax. So probably private armies are bad idea, also neglecting people so that they pummel their own governments.<p>So it&#x27;s ok if billionaires own all the robots, that make stuff, sell stuff to poor (everybody who&#x27;s not a billionaire), as long as government can tax billionaires 98% tax and bomb them if they don&#x27;t pay up.