hh on Nostr: "governments want to protect their citizens and provide for their well-being" I don't ...

"governments want to protect their citizens and provide for their well-being"

I don't know if you're being sarcastic here or maybe we live in different universes and Nostr is a quantum wormhole.

Governments like all human organizations are driven first and foremost by the will to increase their power over resources, people included. The incentive of a government to "protect" their citizens and try not to keep them in abject poverty and physical dejection is exactly the same that drives a local gang to "protect" their turf and the people in it: to extract more resources, for longer, and with as little competition from other mafias as possible.