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RE: How Steemit Turned Me Away from Libertarianism and Freedom/Free Market Principles
Freedom can be many things, especially in terms describing things. Like cheese can be also something else than only cheese, as it can be tasty.
Would you ask?
No perfect freedom can be achieved as people tend to actively reduce freedom with theie freedom.
This is also a reason why people claim Steem is not actually free and thus ignoring the critique at flaws of humans acting within their freedom.
I think this is my point. Freedom is not “produced.” It just is. What individual actors do with it is up to them, and on them. To attempt to qualitatively evaluate freedom itself seems strange to me.
That's a good point.
However, what is the reason you say "I'd argue that Steemit is a pretty far cry from an actual free market setting."?
As it's strange to qualitatively evaluate freedom.
A free market is individual market actors trading with no regulation, no? In that sense, Steemit is a synthetic, mini-“free market,” which is actually confined by many different rules and realities that make it more of a product on the market, than a real reflection of a free market itself.
There are early adopters and investors who own large shares and vast influence, a rigid template for how things work (the code) and parameters/guidelines for how steemit.com can be used.
This is very different from the open concept of “free trade” itself. Indeed, if the platform doesn’t meet market demand, it will fail. The free market itself, can never “fail” or “succeed” as the freedom to trade is simply a reality that can be suppressed or encouraged, but never erased.