But it seems that in Web3 the most common and normalized thing is that projects are funded from a DAO or from the community itself without being profitable or sustainable.
And that's the biggest mistake they make. Only sustainable projects makes sense. DAO (in my very humble opinion) should be only used in core development which obviously is profitable to whole ecosystem and wouldn't be funded otherwise.
Like in the real world, taxes should be spent on general infrastructure; it's reliability and security and basic tools for communities to function (education, health care), but the rest? Casino and soccer stadium? No.
Taxes are theft and I would not want to compare them to Hive. You got me thinking though. Although in Hive we are not coerced and participation is voluntary, it is also true that proposals are passed without our vote and it is supposed to be everyone's money. Could it be likened to taxes? Is part of my participation being taken away from me without my permission? I am just thinking about this now and I think it could be a deep topic to reflect on the type of governance and how free it is. However the best thing is that we don't have a centralized state deciding.
Yeah, analogy wasn't perfect, sorry for that. But yes, the big difference is that we voluntarlly joined Hive. Those are not even our money per se, but it's like air and water. It's not ours per se, it's a common good, but we should better be sure to care about those resources.