My thesis is the state will remain. It has to be constrained and restrained. Engineered parasovereign technologies like Bitcoin, Nostr and Tor are crucial in that regard.
Discussion
Makes sense as right now, nation states with corrupt centralised government as a norm is certainly not looking terribly positive for humanity thriving. Maybe decentralised technologies allow decentralising of much of that apparatus.
The problem comes when actors who are empowered by the stae try to do what individuals and businesses/non profits do best.
I may have missed some for sure but I’ve yet to see any large centralised body do things that appear to have benefit. I include charities and things. Incredible things get done at local level and half the time seems to be spent on governments and big charities getting in the way to try to profit in some manner. Take that to a bigger level and watching what I consider to be an escence of pure unethical corruption and scum and you can have fun watching unicef around Africa. We used to watch those thugs from our office window in Angola. It’s as if any form of centralisation that creates more power or wealth projection is innately impossible for humanity to manage in a manner that doesn’t get corrupted by the most venal people. I personally don’t see that challenge being overcome without extreme decentralisation and individual sovereignty. Hope am wrong or that if right, something can be achieved that mitigates those tendencies