Western govts may have been run more competently in the past, but that doesn't mean that they are still being competently run today.
For example the EU and US are running massive deficits. In order to fund these incredible deficits they are printing money like there is no tomorrow.
I love it when a random guy makes such statements like he knows the truth when a simple Google search a toddler could do would prove him wrong!
Denmark had a budget surplus totalling 92.7 billion kroner in 2023, equivalent to 3.3 percent of the country’s GDP. The Statistics Denmark report is based on a review of state finances throughout the EU.
Denmark is running a budget surplus, and even if the other countries in the EU don't the EU debt to GDP ratio is going down:

But always funny to see people in failed countries telling us how to run our countries!

YES, I pay taxes when I sell my Monero, but I refuse to pay taxes on the Monero I hold.
Do you see the difference?

Again, what taxes would you have paid on your Monero since for the last 4 years you would have had only losses?
Get over it, nobody cares about privacy or anything else anymore, privacy coins are going to die if they don't find a way to attract money and people are more interested in making x10 on meme coins than in their privacy! So keep dreaming!