Topic: Something Fishy about Steemit and Steem? (Read 6184 times)

Déjà vu:

https://s17.postimg.org/6hb81fvtr/dejavu.jpg

I hear, you win even if you don't sign up!

Yes it is a massive scam that made the devs super rich

You completely ignored my statement that I do not care about what happens in the interim, only in the endgame, and in the endgame, both anarchism and statism converge on the same outcome.  That outcome is where one entity or a cartel monopolizes available resources and becomes a slum lord with rent seeking behavior to exploit the rest.  The slum lord will either be the government or some large business entity, but it doesn't really matter.  

In the end, you are either the exploiter or exploitee.  Somebody is always getting screwed working for less pay than they should, and someone is always making tons of pay by doing nothing.  Extreme rent seeking behavior is the outcome in both systems.  It's all the same difference.

The first sign you have a real free market is that cartels and monopolies form, and then you don't have a free market.  Just because the state doesn't subsidize them doesn't mean they can't hang onto their power.  Especially when the state is smaller and parties can just murder anyone who stands in their way - Billy the Kid, Lincoln County cattle wars style.

People who are just hell bent on pretending you can create a system of anarchy with some type of Nash equilibrium to prevent one party from turning it into a dictatorship just don't come across as very smart people to me.  Hell, we are watching that unfold in Bitcoin right now.

This.

It's amazing to see statists jumping on the Bitcoin bandwagon (or should I say blockchain, because Bitcoin is such a filthy word) while supporting or even screaming for regulation. These people are hopeless, they will never get it.

First they laugh at you, then they get mad at you, pretty soon they go silent, then they start agreeing with you, finally they say they were right all along.

The OP's author and you are poor imitations of the real Thought Leaders who show by doing, not blahblahanging off the coattails of criticizing others because all you know is how to steal (the attention capital) from others and not do something yourself.

Two bit losers waste their time criticizing some two bit promoter Jeff Berwick. While you pretend you are protecting the poor n00bs from something and hurling idiomatic bullshit. Fuck man, you are just spewing crab bucket mentality (don't let any other crabs escape the bucket, pull everyone down to the same level) communism in sheepskin (disguise). Look in the mirror, you are fucking pitiful and lying to yourselves.

Here is a role model for you:

It does seem like a "duh", but I'd bet that well more than 50% of the world doesn't know this.

Also, I'm amazed that there are people who love Bitcoin who dismiss "anarchy" and think  "anarchy" means "Mad Max" or something they saw on the Simpsons.

Because Bitcoin is a perfect example of anarchy in action, probably the most perfect in wide scale use. It has rules but not laws, it circumvents silly government controls, It enables A to B transactions where any nosy third party can "C" their way out of it, etc. etc. etc.

Not saying that to you banano, you probably get it. Just saying it in general.

And it's a "duh" to people who get it. But not only does well more than 50% of the world not know this, I think well more than 50% of Bitcoin users don't get this on an internal level.

Any Bitcoin user who understands the mechanisms of Bitcoin and still finds themself voting, or even saying "there oughta be a law" is square and stupid. No matter how smart they are.

The worst are people who want to "use the blockchain to make voting for politicians more accurate." That's just polishing the brass on the Titanic.

MWD

That happens everywhere and has for decades. Whether the protestors are black blok now in Europe, cop blockers now in the US, civil rights protestors in the 50s and 60s in the American South, Apartheid protesters in South Africa in the 80s. Etc.

With any protest against whatever in any country.....most "riots" are actually the police rioting, but the media takes the side of the police.

MWD

You still blaming your problems on others I see.

Still licking the coattails of The Dollar Vigilante.

Get a life. Get off your mother's sofa and accomplish something yourself.

And yes it is very obvious that you not mature yet.

In Greece where I am, there's too much black blok infiltration by the police.

They are used to break up any peaceful protest. The pattern is like this:

1) People gather peacefully to protest.
2) The establishment picks up the phone and tells them "hey you must break the peaceful protest"
3) They come and start vandalizing buildings / attacking the riot police
4) Riot police throws tear gas in millions of peaceful protesters
5) The protest is effectively destroyed
6) Some "clashes" ensue between "anarchists" and riot police, which aren't very real: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8S6XYixMAk

They pretend to fight, when the "anarchists" are to be attacked, the guy is like "hey hey, stop man, we are undercover... see?" - removes hoodie. LOL.

Fuck this shit...

FHI, I wasn't calling you dumb with that reply. You're pretty smart about a lot of things. Politics just isn't one of them. Your knowledge of anarchy is about as correct as old gold bugs' attitude on Bitcoin. You know, people who have never used Bitcoin but say "It's a Ponzi scheme." lol.

The black blok types love to argue endlessly with us AnCaps about who are the "real" anarchists. I always ask them, and never get a good answer:
1. how they plan to redistribute the wealth without some type of government violence.
2. why they care so much about their ownership of the intellectual property of the word "anarchist" when they don't believe in property. lol.

Though from hanging out in Europe with black blok types, I will say this: Many of them are more willing to get pepper sprayed by cops for their beliefs than many American AnComs.

I read it. Typical of steemit. You don't really know what you're talking about but you like the sound of your words.

And quoting Reagan about anarchism. Lolz.

Though he did sometimes sound like an anarchist, but from your writing I doubt you know enough about modern history to know why.

It was because he was imitating Barry Goldwater who had a speech writer who was an actual anarchist. This guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Hess

Read up on him. Interesting cat. And an article about him on Steemit might make a few dollars. There's also video of him talking, on YouTube.

Dan Larimer's Anarchism and statism converge to form the outcome: Steemit.

I guess it depends on the country. In some countries "anarchists" are perceived to be black-hoodie vandals, not philosophers of liberty...

I saw the word anarchy used about 400 times in this thread.  Am I the only person that thinks "anarchism" is a meaningless word that people just use to try and look cool?  Anarchism and statism both converge on the same outcome:

https://steemit.com/anarchism/@r0achtheunsavory/anarchy-doesn-t-exist-it-s-the-equivalent-of-a-simpsons-parody

Yeah I didn't know, but found out quickly enough.

I don't know what his excuse is for being an idiot, but I had a good laugh when he called me a communist. Or that's what I think he meant between his other brainfarts. At least now I can cross that one from my bucket list.



Cool, yes I've seen their organization many times (Bitcoin Not Bombs) always thinking what a great name and I heard about the airport story too. I didn't realize that was also one of them. Nice.

Rewards originate from inflation (new coins issued). Rewards are a fixed percentage of the new coin supply issued.

With a fixed-sized marketcap, if userbase goes 10x or 100x, average rewards go down 10x or 100x.

Rewards are currently excessive precisely because the userbase is in the tens-of-thousands instead of millions.

Brouhaha. Enjoy your circle-jerk.


Obviously you don't. But credibility doesn't seem to be something you really care about.