I'm not sure I follow your reasoning.

Wikipedia works thanks donations.

Voluntary donations are the free market libertarian equivalent of involuntary taxation.

Web3 doesn't work because there's not enough value being provided, party because paying micro transactions is too unfriendly. That's a hard problem and it's lack of success is a clear demonstration of the market working as intended and not rewarding something useless.

The socialist equivalent is a government owned web3 which we all have to pay with taxes and we're increasingly close to getting this.