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Yeah. There is still a lot of viable options for funding though.
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I think there are laws in place to prevent someone like Bill Gates from going rogue and building his own giant robots for personal gain after flagging a company in like, Nigeria or somewhere with lax laws.

At the most extreme they'd be branded a terrorist organization for trying to disrupt the peace with its private armies trying to one-up the US and be dismantled. Or they'd get called out under international law and INTERPOL would just arrest them for arms trafficking. There are ways.