I would argue that tribal leaders weren’t the same as today’s governments with their power to print money and enforce a monopoly on violence, they were decentralised, fluid and based on voluntary association. Bitcoin strips away that unlimited printing press and so without the ability to inflate the currency, how does a government maintain control? I get that most people don’t want self-sovereignty but the people that provide value want to be paid in value, what happens when those people lose faith in their government and their money and see there’s an alternative? In your eyes how does trustless money work alongside any size of government, what’s their purpose if I can exchange value p2p without them? And without productive people the state is only left with dependents (I understand this doesn’t happen overnight). The main problem I come across is the centralisation of AI and who controls that? I think governments or those that control them will either mutate into something even more unstoppable or become obsolete.