Anarchism is fundamentally the ideal that interactions between people should be voluntary. You are free, entiteled to the fruits of your labour and there are social sanctions or even legal sanctions if agreed upon, if you commit acts of violence towards someone else. It's a non-violent society, and has freedom of association.
If we break down non-violent behaviour, everything that goes against your wish (for yourself) is a violation of the non-agression principle. If I wish to keep all my money, and you say I can't, because that would mean I would go to jail, or you will break my legs etc, that is YOU threathening me, and breaking the Non-agression principle.
So anarchism is without regulation, because regulation is agressive in it's nature. To regulate something means we need an organ that has been granted rights to use violence as threath or actual force if threats are not obeyed.
Now, I see so many so called anarchist - especially here on Steemit, talk about how this is an anarchist platform (which it is, and was intended to be. Dan Larimer is a laissez faire free market capitalist) but also at the same time they talk about how it must be regulated. They cry and bitch about bots, they cry and bitch about unfairness. And all they really do is ask for an authority to help them regulate so that THEIR needs are being heard.
Just like in real life, where social justice warriors are shouting the loudest that their needs are heard (We don't want to take responsiblity. We don't want to work hard. We don't want to be creative), a lot of people on Steemit do the same.
A good example of these sorts of regulations destroying a platform is the old school online game Ultima Online. I personally only played it a little bit, but it was a brilliant, huge open world game in the early 90s. Absoultely uniqe. In todays games players can have houses, but they only go into the same "portal" in a town and enter their own personal space that no one else can see. But in UO you would roam through a city and there would be houses everywhere occupied by ACTUAL gamers. With their stuff inside of them. And if you killed someone, you could take their stuff.
It was anarchy, and it was capitalistic. And a lot of new users didn't like this. Instead of playing a lot and being creative, they cried to the developers until the developers changed the game in favour of the crybabies. And the rest is history. The probably best MMO ever died.
The same thing was seen in WOW as well. Many people thought it was unfair that some had gained such high levels, and had such great gear. So they whined to the developers who finally made it possible to just buy that. I wouldn't say WOW is dead - but that's mainly because so many more people today are whiney crybabies who rather pay than to do actual work.
Now, I'm not saying that a lot of people doesn't do hard work on Steemit. I'm sure there are some great blogs here that doesn't earn much. Like mine. But you remember what was the case here BEFORE the upvoting bots? That's right. Everyone just upvoted the all ready rich profiles. I'm not sure if you've notcied how TheDollarVigilante and many more has gone down in rewards? Isn't that because the incentive to suck whale cock has decreased now that any minnow like myself can use upvoting bots to get exposure? I view upvoting bots are advertising. I have a lot more turnover now, but I don't make much more net profit. But a little bit more - thanks to increased exposure.
The main point is however, that in politics as in computer games as on Platforms such as Steemit - regulations and social justice does only one thing. It destroys. When the cries of those who are not adaptive or creative enough is emphasiezed too much, because "unfairness" the platform, game, society dies.
I want this platform to be unregulated, which means let the users decide. That's how a true anarchist society works. If there is all of a sudden a negative incentive to use upvoting bots, well..then people stop using them. Markets are always changing and evolving. We must let it be alive and happen spontaniously without interfering with it's "code" or "hardware" or "value system". A society should be run on values. Anarchism: Non-agression principle. Let people transact and make deals with anyone they want.
Isn't that what we want to see? A society without government? If you guys claim to be anarchists and anti-government..well, how the hell are you shouting for regulations and "majority rule"? There is no majority rule in anarchy. It's only the individual.
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