> I think you're about ten steps ahead of where we are now
Nah I am a socialist and believe these things should have been democratically owned and controlled from the start. Where you think or hope the steps you mentioned might lead to sounds to me a lot like technological determinism: i.e. 'trickle down innovation' [1], and that's not where I would want us to go. In other words: we're behind, not ahead.
[1] https://venturecommune.substack.com/p/go-where-workers-are-a... (section 'Against technological determinism')