Here is a shower thought for you:

Why do we have to pay taxes?

If a government creates value, they should be rewarded directly

We shouldn't need taxes.

We should create economic models that rewards value creation when it's happening.

Objection: Governments provide public goods
Response: What if we set up DAOs to provide public goods.

Objection: There are things that need large-scale coordination, like climate change, that won't occur without a top-down approach.

Response: I don't have a good answer to this one... help me out in the comments... ↴

My response to objection 2 is that startups are much better positioned to work efficiently and utilize new tech to solve large-scale coordination problems like climate change.

Side note: mushrooms can help to solve the climate crisis as well as many other issues! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5frPV58tY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI5frPV58tY)