Sometimes in manga a person will be in an underdeveloped fantasy world and start introducing concepts like banks, money lending and lottery tickets. I can’t help but yell at them to stop ruining this perfectly good fantasy world. Also, a lot of them can’t wait to recreate guns. Absolute idiots.

Nah, you're mad at the gross inequities of the system, not at the advancement. There is no mythical perfect past, it never existed. That's just nostalgia with a twist. People in every age had escapist fantasy. There is a brighter future, but it requires you to make it happen (and yes, that you includes me)

The Australian Aboriginal civilisation did. It worked well for them for some 40,000 years, until people who discovered filing taxes (and writing, and building surpluses that could be spent on employing specialists, developing technologies including transport, large-scale agriculture and warfare) came along and essentially subjugated them.

It all started with settled society. Some of the earliest Sumerian tablets record what were effectively complaints about feeling unappreciated at work and stuck in debt. I think there was even a drinking song about one of those and a proverb like "I am a stallion tied to a mule"

In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

IDK, I quite like the things that are being done with taxes, many of which ensure I have water, electricity, social security, and health care.

Personally, I wouldn't be a fan of being dead before the age of 12, but I guess that's just me.

You can thank the Prussians and Frederick the Great for those taxes. They were the first to institute a complete national census (at least the first in the more modern era, the Romans may have done complete censuses,) to better tax the population to pay for their war machine.