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cryptokeepr (61) · 7 years ago

There definitely are a lot of crybabies on this platform who want to have it both ways (both large and small in terms of account value). One of the things I really like about it is that it's not really regulated much by anyone but the users. I'm a libertarian / borderline anarchist and am leaning more and more toward the anarchist side of the spectrum the older I get, especially living in the United States...our government is one of the most terrifying and corrupt entities on this entire planet.

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kafkanarchy84 (74) · 7 years ago (edited)

Holy shit. UO (the early version) sounds fuckin amazing. Had never heard of it.

Great post man. The way I see it, voicing complaints, etc, is one thing. It is the user using their free market voice to attempt to bring about desired changes.

Calling for the implementation of communistic changes to the code and platform themselves in order to make everything “equal,” is an entirely different beast, and I agree. This always kills creativity, innovation, and growth.

Cheers.

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scandinavianlife (67) · 7 years ago (edited)

Oh yeah. Absolutely. I'm sorry if that didn't come through. I was ranting..that's what I do. No filter or check ups. :) (How else am I going to write 5 posts per day? Quantity over quality!)

If the market(people of Steemit) decide that they don't want upvoting bots here - THEY must, how do I put it..prove that that's really what they want. It's like people talking about how altruistic they are, and how much they care for poor people - but in practice they don't do anything because it interferes with their sedate lifestyle or their real values (that aren't really altruistic)

If people don't want upvoting bots here..then don't use them. Don't interact with people who use them. De-incentivise(??) the use of bots by putting your actions where your mouth is. Even if that means that you yourself lose out economically for a while.

That's the difference between talk and walk. If it's value based complaints you walk the walk. If it's just crybaby-sounds you're making because muh feelings you're not going to do much about it. Because what you really want is just more money, and someone else is making that instead. You want a system where YOU make more, regardless of anything..

So..but I'm willing to change MY behavior on this platform if that's what the market dictates. No problems with that. If it's not longer economically lucurative for me to use upvoting bots, then I'll stop.

About Ultima Online

That game looks so amazing. But..we must let the past be past. I tried to download the oldschool client on my mac,.and god it was dreadful. Slow, terrible interface. I gave up after 30 mins. There is a enhanced version, but I can't find it for mac without too much hassle. And I'm terrible with those WineSkins and stuff.

I know the feeling..When I die and become a ghost, my ghost will just lay on the couch searching for old school MMORPG's that doesn't exist but that I wished existed. My dream game is a MMORPG like Ultima Online but with the game mechanics of Baldurs Gate. Imagine that...Put my brain on a glass and keep me alive for the rest of eternity, and I'll keep playing that forever.

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vieira (63) · 7 years ago

Just as the SJW have sequestered the term "liberal," the communists have hijacked the term "anarchy." 80% of the publications made by these supposed anarchists here in Steemit, usually talk about the inequality in the platform and about how bad the whales are. I definitely can not understand how these people think.

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hansdewet (58) · 7 years ago

I see your point. And it was well illustrated with the game you mentioned. Until recently I have been addicted to World of Warcraft. For some weird reason I do get that gaming feeling from crypto and steemit. But I never played vanilla wow but I do know that a lot of time had to be put in to achieve excilence. But this feeling too grind the whole day to achieve higher level of being. Is and has been the best way to CREATE the world as it is today.
I always thought anarchy was negative and early on thought it was a far leftistist movement.

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scandinavianlife (67) · 7 years ago

Right. Same here. Cryptos give you the grinding feeling, because grinding is just being addicted to something that is fun. Free market is fun. Great computer games are the ones that grant you a lot of freedom right? So in an open world MMO you are basically free to do whatever you want (within some limits of course..but very very soon computer games with no limits will appear..on the blockchain even. Check out Parsec Frontiers for example)

So, the freedom makes you want to grind. What is grinding? It's hard work. And it's fun and addictive. You get that feeling with cryptos because it is exactly that. It gives you freedom and it's fun and addicting. You invest in this, you transfer that, you blog about it. Etc. Full freedom.

Anarchy does not really mean chaos. It means that people organize voluntarily. If you want someone to put out the flames if your house catches fire..you pay for firemen. Now, leftists argue that we will have shitty services that are expensive..but that's a lie. Because if people knew the thruth, their oppressive system based on violence would be compromised.

For example; This year I've spent 1000$ on private health care. In Norway we have public healthcare. But it sucks so much, and there are so long waiting lines that forget about it if you want a good chance of checking things early on etc.

So I've spent USD1000$ on MY private health this year. Do you know how much I pay on healthcare through taxation for the public system?USD10,000$. TEN times as much.

It just shows how ineffective and fucked up the welfare state is.

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davebrewer (59) · 7 years ago

Public healthcare is a guarantee that all are treated identical, and the treatment will be very mediocre, not state of the art, and it will cost a lot to get that mediocre treatment.

I am familiar with the Canadian system. Completely mediocre with practices that lag 10-20 years behind state of the art in USA; but social justice warriors are happy because everyone gets the same low quality of treatment, and the government pays a lot.

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scandinavianlife (67) · 7 years ago

Yeah. It's disgusting. I saw how my mother slowly died from peripheral vascular disease at 60 with amputations etc because of horrible treatment and wrong diagnosis for years. They couldn't even connect the dots when she got an ulcer in her foot. We did what we could to try and inform her, but she had complete faith in the doctors. "We live in the best country in the world". People honestly believe this, because we are being told that all the time. Norway has turned into a really scary country thanks to socialism.

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sarahmcdowell (46) · 7 years ago

Any where in this world there is always people divided in different groups. They make a group with their thinking. So it's quite natural that people will think like this that someone will think him as dominated party and he will think about others that they dominate us.Some thing is unfair with them.There is two question actually is there any kinds of unfairness or some one is complaining without any valid point?But platform like this specially there is no administration user is the only administration, here the problem will be bigger,because where there is a administration they try to solve the raised problem. Who will do it here?This kind of situation is very tough for this kinds of platform, it's a kinds of threat for the platform.If the fire of unhappiness spreads all over then it will tough for the platform to survive.So all of we have to act with responsibility other wise it's going to be very crucial for the platform.Already there is a fire of unhappiness like the term minnow and big whales they are in not a good position.People who think them as minnows they are big in numbers,on the other hand big whales who are very powerful they are not big in numbers but they are vital for tje platform.Any one of this decide to leave the platform will cause a huge problem.So it's time for getting united and wipe the issue minnow and whale that's the only thing can reduce the problem.Thanks for the post.

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jerryt (45) · 7 years ago

You summed it up perfectly, no regulation needed. The free flow of thoughts and ideas will lead in the desired direction. As far as governments go, they all suck, everyone of them. Plus your comments below about Galt's Gulch tugged at my heart a bit, I've given this book to many folks over the years, sadly only a couple have gotten the message within.

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onpolitics (48) · 7 years ago

That's how it is. Life becomes very different once you start using VALUES as markers. Everything just falls apart. You realize you were born into a violent system and you are beaten - emotionally or phyically (bullied) or both your entire life. Perhaps not as brutal as it sounds..but the fact that most people can't seems to grasp that simple thing that you never signed a contract where you say it's not OK to keep all your own money. You never signed up for that "social contract". And even more frustrating for many libertarians, and discriptive for the madness is this argument; "well, why are you using the welfare state then? move somewhere else!"

First of all, it would be stupid not to use the benefits of the system you are forced to live under. If you are in a Gulag camp in Syberia you don't refuse to use a blanket when you sleep, or the bed - just because you oppose being dragged up there to die a slow horrible death as a slave worker.Also..you can't just leave a country. And where would you go? All countries more or less run the same OS :)

Sure, comparing the Norwegian welfare state to Sybarian gulag camps is a tad far fetched...but at best, the walfare state reduce so many people into mediocricy and quite a lot of people into dullness and a life in the couch with tv-shows and anxiety and depression. It kills entrepreneurship and it kills go-getter mindset. From the day you enter the indoctrination camps called school you are slowly drained..all your enthusiasm and drive is slowly crushed.

SOME people make it tough. Those who are masters at adapting. Those who are smart and good looking and outrovert and good at making friends. Sure..these people do well in almost any kind of system. But most other people are inhibited. They turn out mediocre at best or beaten down and confused facing a horribly scary world that they don't understand when they leave school.

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chieppa1 (66) · 7 years ago

Anarchism takes some personal responsibility and some ability to stick to principles.

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funbobby51 (59) · 7 years ago

and that is why it will never work

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onpolitics (48) · 7 years ago

That's exactly the negative mindset and view on humans that makes it possible for despots to rule over and over and over again. Nihilists and relativists who don't believe humans are capable of taking responsibilities. Listen..the world will never be "perfect", not even under free market capitalism. But to me, it seems like humanity is doing a little bit better once government eases of a little bit and let the free market do it's thing..and a liiiiittle bit worse when we lose all faith in humanity and rely on religion or some despot like Kim Jung On to tell us what to do.

You're here aren't you, on this free market capitalist platform? Why?

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