Not disagreeing for post-industrial societies; but honorable mention for the many high functioning pre-industrial tribal communities that existed outside of European influence.
In general, the rule of larger and larger groups of people always trends towards tyranny.
Everything starts with good intentions but in the end, it is ridiculous to think that central planning could run a whole society. As you said, it will always end up in physical coercion. What is almost ironic is that the money we use today lives under a very similar regime, it is almost like the world is tilting towards communism, following the king money burocracy.
