No rules or standards established.

Bullshit. There are tons of rules. Explicit, implicit, whatever you want.
The money-for-vote rule is one of strongest there is on the internet for example, because money is power.
You can make a living for people just by adhering to the vote rule, and you say there are no rules here? That rule of power is even stronger then that of employer-employee.

You cannot chat here, and you say there is no no-chat rule on steemit?
Architecture is rules. Just look at the anti-sleeping-homeless banks with their round "armrests" or the space between seats made so that you cannot lie on them. THAT is rule by architecture in perfection.
Same goes for every feature that is included or not included here.

If you cannot see that, you need to open your eyes. And then again.