I’m not sure if you know what Communism is or how it works...
You see, Communism requires (at the very least) coercive redistribution of wealth and your participation in the system, with no ability to opt out of either, without risking being killed or jailed by the coercive regime.
Nobody forces you to be on Steemit...at all.
You are free to opt out of Steemit at any time, for any reason, with a near 0% chance of your risking being jailed or killed by the people you are trying to equate with the leaders of a communist State.
You don’t have to give a penny to anyone on Steemit or involved with it. You don’t have to participate in Steemit in anyway. You don’t even have to think about Steemit.
You are free to come and go with your bodily integrity fully intact and without a single cent of your money or property being forcibly taken.
That makes Steemit—literally—the opposite of Communism.
Might I suggest you update your political philosophy education.
It can’t hurt to start with Murray Rothbard, hit some David D. Friedman, move along to some Lysander Spooner, and then grow in some straight up non-communist anarchists like Proudhon (ignoring his anti-property silliness).
It’ll help and they are great reads!
Yes. Yes he can.
He can literally get “the total amount of ‘more communist’ that someone can get when they are currently no amount of communist whatsoever.”
Because again, in any “not at all communist” systems, you could “use 60 different accounts in which you himd private monetary wealth in order to create and execute a mass public relations campaign that completely and utterly tarnishes a person‘s reputation and image, and causes them to lose every customer, patron, and client of their business. And you can invest in your own product, labor, or output to the tune of millions of dollars a day.”
And none of that would, in any way, shape, or form constitute “communism.“
Not to beat a dead horse, but doing things with your own private property that may have a detrimental effect on lots of other people, is not, under any definition, a kind of “communist activity.”
If a person uses their own wealth and power in order to silence other people rather than countering speech that happens to be disagreeable to them with their own speech attempting to refute the disagreeable speech, then that doesn’t make that person a communist.
It just makes that person a dick.
I’m not educated enough on bots and reward pools and any of that to have any opinion—moral, ethical, or otherwise—on the truth or propriety of that.
I’m open to be educated about it, with, you know, proof and statistics and real information and data on which I can base my opinion.
And please notice, @mitrado, that I did not flag anything you said here (and have not intentionally flagged anything to this day, and will never flag anything in the future).
That doesn’t mean I agree with your comments.
I don’t agree with them at all.
I think they are misinformed, silly, and ignorant.
But I’m confident enough in my opinions and my ability to express them, that I’d much prefer people are able to see the silliness you say and then read my exponentially better response, and then judge for themselves.
They’ll judge me right and you wrong every time.
(They’ll also judge me to be a preening, pedantic, pretentious snob, and they’d be right about that too).
I can’t control what the silly steemit-rich people do around here. I have no affiliation with any of them. And I’ll tell them why they’re wrong when they’re wrong no differently than I’ll tell you, or Mr. Elliot-Wave-Guru.
If that gets me downvoted to -75 (including for my gentle criticism right now—and it is gentle considering what I put out there on our famous Cryptocurrency Astrologer), then I’ll wear it as a badge of honor and continue to criticise ridiculous ideas no matter their source.