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RE: Untangling the Gordian Knot that is Steem Ethics
"does investing a huge amount of money give them the right to make this gain? thats the question."
I agree and second the above question. I also can't help but wonder if a hard fork ever does thwart capitalists from capitalizing will it cause a mass exodus? If so, wouldn't that prove yet again that the enforced sharing model, no matter what name one calls it, generally tends to fail flat on its face?
when you are dealing with a lot of capitalists yes. i happen to be more of a socialist, which i get a lot of flack for, because they have a different concept of socialism than i do. i think there are people who are willing to work together in a way that it benefits the community, as the community supports the individual. people that come in with a purely capitalistic mind set tend to get upset because they envision quick profit, which is a problem. steem is a group investment, not a short term stock with dividends. i feel people should come here with the idea of investing in the community, because they believe in that vision. i think this is really tricky, because if we are appealing to capitalist investers, it wont wash.
Thanks for your feedback @torico, it's always good to get your take! Any ideas on how steem might appeal to socialist investors? It should be interesting to see how it all pans out in the long run. I think it was an interesting experiment to have, but now they're going all weird with it, and it will be interesting to see where that goes too.
well i'd like to see it take crypto and go into a new social movement geared towards sustainability and grassroots, more decentralized government. not everything has to be pure socialist or pure capitalism. it sounds illogical but i favor a sort of decentralized socio-capitalist democracy, the kind that takes the environment into account. this would take a huge cultural paradigm shift in so much as no, you dont need 8 cars and 3 houses and 10 million dollars. just people who all work toward a common goal of a thriving community.
im not sure where steemit will go. im not really a financial person so i keep my nose out of that, but i'd like one day to see a steem village.
I want 10 cars. Don't stop me from doing what I want to do. Private property rights. Otherwise, who decides? It always comes back to centralization or decentralization of powers in regards to who decides what is best for the environment, etc, etc.
Your version of socialism exists in the free market in the form of partnerships, relationships, teamwork, the free market, in working together, in competing, in being humans, in the fundamentals of eternal love and eternal principles. Regardless of how you see socialism, the problem is within federal governments, globalism, authoritarianism, tech cartels, corporatism, monopolism, etc, etc, in what they have been doing, etc.