“If nobody owns the productive assets, nobody will make the asset in the first place."
not true --- you are stuck with the concept of ownership in your head.”
Not at all. It’s human psychology. People don’t do something for nothing, especially in the commercial sphere. Thus it is pointless speculating on what may have happened if the aboriginals had advanced technologically. It was never going to happen.
In fact, you cannot advance at all unless there is ownership. Say you make a flint axe. I come and take it, and chop down a tree. That’s got me my firewood for a month, so I can just sit back every afternoon. Hopefully you’ll make another, because I can’t remember where I put it .....