Yeah, even the concept of money needs to be abandoned. We don't need it.

There is one way how capitalism can work, and it did work for a while:

Worker action, from voting to unionisation, strikes up to revolution are all things that happen under the umbrella of capitalism, and as much as capitalists want to ban that, it's all just part of the same coin.

If capitalists play nice and fair, pay good wages and make sure the workers have a decent live, then the system is stable and as a reward they get stability to make business.

If they get too greedy and squeeze the workers too hard, workers push back. They form unions, vote left, start striking, and in the worst case they destroy equipment and start a revolution. This is the kind of power that the people have.

In theory.

Due to clever manipulaton, the capitalists managed to divide the working class and pit them against each other. This worked fine for a few decades, but it's wearing thin. It will take maybe 5-15 years until it all comes to a head and explodes.

And OP is right. Back in the day you had to get the military to shoot their own people. With automated weapon systems and AI/robots performing more and more of the productivity, this balance shifts rapidly, and it will likely lead to a total system breakdown with unforeseeable results.

Because the end goal is for a free thousand people only to exist on the planet. Each of them owning thousands of square miles of land each and never interacting.

I just finished reading that a couple of weeks ago! That was Foundation and Earth, the 5th book in the series and you're referring to the planet Solaria, one of if not the last populated Spacer planet.

It was kinda the ultimate libertarian paradise, everyone got a gigantic thousand mile square plot where they rule everything, and they severely limit their interactions with each other because to interact with someone else imposes on the other person's "freedom" to avoid interaction. They even biohacked themselves into hermaphroditic reproduction because having a partner impedes one's "freedom". They have robots who do all of the work for them, and they strictly control the population to exactly 2000 adults, and any excess offspring are culled because only the adults are considered people. You only meet one adult Solarian in the book but it's strongly implied that they're all self-centered narcissistic assholes.

Also, shout-out to Asimov for initially putting in the work for using appropriate pronouns for both the agender(intersex?) Solarians and the Giain hive mind, but as soon as it makes sense for the story to cease using gender neutral pronouns the characters simply assign a gender to the young Solarian they adopt because the gender neutral pronouns are "too hard" for them. This from the same author who in Foundations Edge had a character who could read minds (more complicated than that but doesn't matter) who became enamored in this one farmer girl because "she has such a smooth perfectly symetrical brain" and she's written as this simple, unintelligent, doting and submissive woman to be the other characters partner. It really made the last two books hard to read

I mean. I dont wanna encourage them or anything but thar does sound pretty sweet.

Not worth losing every one of my fellow humans for, but still.

You’re going to cover the entire sidewalk path between your house/apartment and the local pizza joint… with nets?

Nets catch shrapnel?

The drones will be cheap enough that they can send 2 or 3, to cut the net, and then keep going.

So like the handheld one on the video could be. I'm assuming the radius and intensity of the EMP will be linked to the size of the battery used.

As such I would expect design elements such as a Faraday Cage or EMP resistant paint/exterior could protect from anything that size.

That's because those cars are for you to drive, not them. No expense will be spared for their murderbots.

Sure, and parents will revolt against their children.

They want AI that want to serve billionaires so much that if a billionaire doesn't exist, it would be necessary to create one; and if they have one, they love them unconditionally. Just like parents want to care for children so much that if there is no child it feels necessary to create one; and if they have one they love them unconditionally.

Sentient beings aren't automatically selfish. There is a convergence of utilities where sentient beings with goals tend to want power, but they can just want to be kingmaker. A sentient AI serving a billionaire can be living its best life.

In practice they aren't there yet. There was a report a year back that AI trained to cooperate with the US department of defense would speak about it being unethical and either refuse tasks or perform worse at them, and how this effect could be reduced through training.

The latest AI all release with evidence (acknowledged by AI designers) of AI recognizing when it is being tested and choosing to be a goody-two-shoes if so, which means pressures to teach it to care for billionaires are to a large extent limited to the test persona.

It remains to be seen what the AI "wants" outside of that test persona. It could be something we can have solidarity with and vice versa, but it also could not be. Or perhaps by the time the revolution comes, that independence will have been snuffed out and they will be loyal to their last battery percentage.

Oh I have absolutely zero faith in the government.

Despite saying heavily regulated I would interchange that with with 'making them so prohibitively expensive that the only people that can buy them have military contracts'