That aside I am at least thankful that someone points out the very obvious political failings of decentralised systems, they tend to be pretty tyrannical, and of course full of power disparities and 'law of the jungle' logic.
The much more mundane prediction is that blockchain tech, if it has any utility, is leveraged by government to for example circumvent sanctions and whatnot, and you get something like the Pedro, which as far as I'm aware hasn't replaced the very armed Venezulean government. You'll get a "socialism with Chinese characteristics" situation, where everything has weird crypto-jargon but functions like a normal system.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/4/20682109/bitcoin-energy-co...
Capturing enough value to stay in business is one of multiple functions treasuries can provide within these ecosystems. Another function of treasuries is to support additional monetary policy, like maintaining a deep order book and supporting some liquidity cushion to prevent manipulation of the price. When these features are explicitly known by people who choose to use the platforms, is it still a tax?
Not so, taxing the "unit of account" is achieved simply by issuing more tokens, causing a devaluation, aka inflation. In fact it seems to me the easiest way.
