Thank you for posting @dantheman.
If one may take the opportunity you have given to express thought....
Thoughts...Queries....
If we believe in free market Capitalism...then why is this an issue?
Is @steemsports following the current guidelines set up by Steemit?
ie. of no more than one post per four hours.
Also, the concept of Steemit is the future...as long as man seeks freedom...the freedom Steemit provides will be a winning attractant. Freedom to fail....Freedom to succeed. Steemit has the potential to be everything to everyone under free market concepts...and there will be everything here from soup to nuts...the market will decide who soars and who falls flat.
Principle...True freedom guarantees inequality.
Final thoughts. If Steemsports were conducting anything remotely similiar to betting...there would be far fewer participants in my opinion as then one would have something to lose.
Hmm. I agree that there's a type of freedom that guarantees inequality, but I'm not sure I'd call that form true freedom.
When I think true freedom, I think complete and total freedom from psychological suffering and freedom from the seemingly incessant need to compare and/or prove oneself to others (seeking approval). I think absolute and total independence, as in accepting NO authorities in any walk of life. I think a total loss of a subjective sense of judgment (loss of ego-identity), therefore, no basis to determine who's equal or unequal, on any terms.
I think freedom FROM choice, not OF choice, kind of like how your heart beats without any conscious efforts, whatsoever.
This type of freedom, a Buddhist would call "nirvana". Freedom FROM self, not FOR self. Freedom FROM competition, not TOWARDS competing. In other words, the total opposite end of the spectrum from what you called true freedom.
What you defined as a true freedom, a Buddhist would call "bondage" (to the material; to greed; to psychological suffering).
BTW, I'm not a Buddhist, nor do I practice Buddhism in any way. Just thought I'd share a different perspective, one that I believe has some merit (it makes sense to me that freedom from one's own ego would lead to a great sigh of relief, so to speak, as a great deal of personal burdens would go away with it).
Steemit is a private company and they can do whatever they think is better for business. Steem is a blockchain, which suppose to be open and free.