Treasury just needs to "print those dollas" and make Musk even more so richest person in the world. I'm being serious.

Retaining the profits and placing them back as UBI could work.... although if we do that, the politicians will just find a tax or another project that needs the money before giving it to people.

Agreed - we don't control our destiny as a people by buying what they're selling with free money we get as a door prize for existing.

We do have that for many government projects and they often don’t go well, so I’m not sure what improvements you’re expecting?

>we need democratic, communal control of industry

That is called socialism. I don't mind socialism and state owned enterprises as long as the force of market competition is still at play. That is the reason state owned enterprises don't suck in China. They have multiple SOEs within the same fields like car manufacturing and telecommunication competing against each other.

The state doesn't own SOE in pure socialism, society and the workers do. This is the idea behind socialism and I don't think anywhere on the planet practises true socialism and instead it's morphed or combined where it is said to be used.