RE: Web 3 Ensures The End Of Governments
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Most governmental functions can be replaced by Web 3.0, but not the most basic, fundamental one, the reason nation states exist in the first place - Defence.
I'm sorry but Web 3.0 is not going to protect my family from being slaughtered by Hamas ISIS worse than Nazis.
Government defence forces failed on Oct 7 but quickly recovered as only the army of a nation state can.
The whole reason nation states exist is their ability to organise and motivate large numbers of men and large and expensive weapons systems to wage war in defence of their people.
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So governments exist for defense? What happens when they fail at it? How about those instances where they turn against their own people?
And you are going to presume that today's warfare will be the same in the future. To be honest, to wipe out large segments of a countries population, you dont need warfare, just take out the electrical grid. That will cause more deaths than anything the most vile of tynrants could dream up.
I don't disagree with you that governments are highly flawed and sometimes turn on their own people rather than protecting them.
Nor do I disagree that most modern societies are quite fragile and depend on things like electricity and diesel which can be taken out by a determined enemy reasonably easily.
But the simple fact remains that the organisational power and financial resources of the nation state are essential for defence. No private organisation or DAO or collective decentralised group can match this power to conduct warfare.
The US Founding Fathers had it correct that a centralised State was necessary for defence (indeed the US Constitution with Federal tax powers arose precisely because of the need for a Navy to defeat the Barbary Pirates (African Muslims kidnapping, raping and hijacking ships) - sound familiar to Hamas & Houthis today?!!.
They also had it correct that that centralised State should have very limited other roles - the gradual expansion of government into all areas of life is where things have gone wrong, not the nation state itself.