Comment by skew-aberration

I don't think that's necessarily unlikely, but people making this argument rarely seem to understand just how radical a change is required to make that a possibility.

e.g most small business rent their premises, and buy goods and services from other tenant small businesses, who buy their raw materials from large landowners. How can a small business survive when all the land is monopolized by the technocrats? All value you add gets taken away as rent. This is why they always talk about taxes on outputs (tokens) instead of inputs (land, energy usage).

It's not an ungrounded hypothetical, that's exactly how society worked for hundreds (thousands?) of years.