The anti-guillotine
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A historically braindead take. The super wealthy have never lacked eager servants. Except now they'll need technicians and programmers to troubleshoot their troops instead of blacksmiths and quartermasters.
You're trading room and board and clothing for belts, gears, hydraulics and o-rings. And arguably a human military would still be necessary as a fallback in the event of the proliferation of EMP.
But in addition to eager servants they've also had stubborn people who resist. Machines are easier to look after and less likely to rebel. And they're quickly reducing the need for technicians and programmers.
Stubborn people against the rulers can build drones too.
You really need a factory to make them, especially if you want to make as many as the government will have. But running such a factory would be difficult to hide and you're dependent on large amounts of raw materials and products from other suppliers so there's a lot of ways that illegal operation would get shut down.
A distributed cottage industry would be better. In any case, if they can't stop the illegal drug trade, they wouldn't be able to stop illegal killbots.