Desperate times call for desperate measures.
They had a form of money that gave themselves a monopoly on power through control over the printing (=inflation) of currency.
We invented a far superior form of money, completely transcending their greedy, selfish system.
Is anyone surprised they now want a piece of our pie? They're bullies! They've always been bullies.
Look, the IRS could have chosen the path of reason and logic, convinced us of the merits of government and the reasons we should support it (as crypto-enthusiasts are doing every day!). Our government could have chosen to solicit donations and raise awareness of the value of roads, schools, fire departments, police, water treatment, recycling, and garbage collection. But they didn't.
Every government has this choice between reason and force. And all of them have chosen coercion and force, because up until cryptocurrency, this was the path of least resistance. They felt justified because "we're the federal government!", just as feudal lords felt justified in the use of force against disobedient peasants, because "We rule by the will of god!". Both are bullshit, of course.
Cryptocurrency is making that path - the path of force and violence - impossible and irrelevant as we speak. This is a great thing for all the people of the world excluding the oligarchs!
In the future, governments will need to justify their existence through virtuous action, rather than impose their existence and their will on the people by force, deception, and manipulation.
Technology (specifically augmented reality), and the ever-accelerating speed at which information flows, will soon make deception obsolete and useless as a method of getting what you want. Any authority which relies on the combination of deception and force will melt away, like early-spring snow in the first light of dawn.
Nation-state governments will either adapt to this new environment by changing their ways (for the better of all humanity) or they will destroy themselves by struggling to cling to their ill-gotten power.
Very poetic, and I agree with your sentiment, but how will "augmented reality" prevent deception? Hasn't the ubiquity of technology made corruption and malfeasance easier? Do you really think we'll all be saved from "coercion and force" by the latest Apple/Google-approved tech and/or crypto? Even in an RMS utopia of all open-source and "free as in freedom" hardware and software, how does technology change human nature? "Binary blobs do not a prison make."
I remember a time long before web pages, smart phones, google glass, even before Mosaic and old baud modems, and let me assure you, very little has changed other than the public using all these new gadgets as fancy toys for trite socializing and corps/govts using them to spy on everyone.
It's clear that the world is changing, such that many traditional institutions are being rendered outmoded and obsolete—a healthy purging perhaps. Cryptocurrencies, for instance, are great. But they reflect virtue—or a lack thereof—as much as they foster it.
I hope you're trolling, young man, but if you're not, try some sunshine, light exercise, travel, and fun for an even more augmented form of reality.
