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Governments will get over it
Why would they both deny themselves tax revenue and encourage and enable a competitor to their state sponsored fiat MoE monopoly?
Because the citizens will demand it.
See - De-segregation
Women's Voting
Firearm's Rights
The US Constitution...
Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom from Unlawful Search and Seizure etc etc...
All of these things are/were inherently 'unpopular' with governments because they restrict their influence and ability to exert it
However the citizens demanded accountability in one way or another and so things changed. Like we see them changing now
Yes I hope this will happen - if enough citizens demand it it is possible.
To get there we need to get people on board and understanding how a Bitcoin Standard economy could be much better than the current state imposed fiat debt slavery monopoly system.
100% We need education
The problem is that to use LN to pay for services like Youtube the vast majority of users would in practice be breaching their respective tax assessment obligations.
Youtubes legal team cannot and will not endorse such a massive enabling of tax code violation.
Fiats operators have very slyly succeeded in effectively obstructing mass adoption.