[lucaspm98]

Sure this seems to have worked in high-trust homogenous society with similar values and goals. They have a very high baseline of wealth given abundant natural resources that'd need active mismanagement to not have a strong economy.

Extending their taxation or economic system to a larger, more populous, diverse, and economically fractured society would lose most of the reasons they're succeeding.

[dv_dt]

The question is still circumstantial correlation or causation with these factors. What you can conclude is that high taxes do not impede happiness or economic prosperity.