in a Democratic welfare State owned by its State employees (and not its protection customers), an overwhelming number of individual citizens are enticed into becoming rubber-stamping "pseudo-employees" who don't show up to work but are paid handouts and subsidies in exchange for tacitly approving everything the State does, including constantly expand and raising costs (after all, 'government costs' are employee wages, and employees are incentivized to increase their wages) by taxing wealth and debasing it to the benefit of State coffers and employee/pseudoemployee salaries.

the directly-taxed producers of wealth are too numerous and disorganized to resist the theft that is approved by their pseudoemployee neighbors.

an extremely well-resourced and comptent individual or small collective can simply escape this or negotiate to their benefit (think Elon), but the mass of medium-resouce, no-handout-receiving wealth producers sit in the negative sweet spot for State harvest via "democratic" rule making.

(Bitcoiners may yet escape this if they're smart and recognize their position in time)