I think I know your problem. You are an idealist like i was. You want to show people their corruption but no one listens.
I'll tell you this. Don't delude yourself into changing something because it won't help anyway :P
During the pandemic, I attended many protests, participated in many actions, and wrote many articles and comments. All based on facts, all showing the absurdity of what is happening. No one listened... No one except people who realized for themselves that something was wrong.
The rest wanted to thank us for sacrificing their time and risking being whipped, hit by a stun grenade or even imprisoned (this happened to several of my colleagues) to save their miserable asses from their own stupidity: baton, prison, sanitary segregation or social alienation.
People don't want to listen and never will. We said there is no pandemic, they didn't want to listen and stayed at home, wore masks... we said don't get vaccinated, they didn't listen and now they are dying...
So the only thing you can do is stand as the 1%, surrounded by a cordon almost larger than the number of protesters, just like I stood there in Warsaw:
...and create a problem for those 80% who would like to sweep common sense under the carpet. And hope that the remaining 19%, who are quite knowledgeable but not so brave, will gain courage and deal with the 80% who have no brains of their own.
And I am doing the same here as one of 30 witnesses who have influence and as one of 21 whose voice is decisive.
I stand there and create a problem for those who would like to painlessly introduce tyranny here, I talk to those who see the matter similarly and I hope that eventually some front of change will emerge.
Because changes are very possible.
it doesn't have to be 17 +1 witnesses, it can be 200 or 2000 but I will tell you honestly, referring to what I said about the pandemic above, that the less the better.
If there are fewer witnesses, there is a greater risk of a specific group taking over the blockchain, but there is also a greater chance of throwing this group off their seats. Blurt, as well as hive and steem, are characterized by one good thing which I always give as a big +.
There is no such thing as a "witness term" or an election, and a vote cast can be withdrawn as quickly as gained. This makes changing these 20 items if people decide to, easy and quick and can happen within a few days.
Now imagine that decisions are influenced by 170 out of 200 or even 1700 out of 2000 witnesses... if pandemic statistics show that 80% of the population is passive and just listens to TV, how much greater chance do you think there would be that among 200 witnesses or 2000 Will you find those 170 or 1,700 who will accept the proposal of one influential totalitarian? ;)
You are fighting windmills here because it is not this blockchain that is broken but global society. And as long as 80-90% of global society follows a group of sheep showing their faces on TV and does not think for itself, no programmer will create a system that is not filled with corruption, profit and selfishness.
Here is no easy and simple function to close the mouth. It is possible to freeze an account, but it is not as easy as clicking delete and it does not go unnoticed. there is no demonetization function and these two things already mean that Blurt is better than 90% of the Internet ;]
In my opinion, this blockchain is one of the best current attempts to create a system for mature and thinking people, not children, but the problem is that children also participate in it. What you see in the Blurt is the result of what would happen at the beginning if, for example, anarcho-capitalism, which you seem to support, was introduced overnight.
Everything here can be changed with Hardforks in a better direction. What is now is the result of the mentality that created steem and apart from the removal of the downvote function, no other significant changes have been introduced so far. Interestingly, it happened because the MD tried to block your account, so Investors and the community reacted and there was an impasse in which no one could make anything for over a year until everyone reached an agreement. For me this is proof that it works. In a broken system, you would be long gone.
This is why you are a witness i still vote for .
Know when you stood your ground in Warsaw ,
I faced the riot cops in Amsterdam .
First , anarcho-capitalism is changed ,. it is Voluntaryist induvidualism now . Where the movement knows ,. not to rush it or force it trough . For any change for the good must come up from the bottom and not be poured down from the top .
It is why i now do my thing mostly offline , with people face to face .
In friendly communication i just plant simple seeds ,. seeds that may or may not grow in to something good one day .
Moved from Liberstad Norway to Montelibero Montenegro ,. where i for the most part are connecting to libertarian Russians ,. who fled their country to be free . Spreading the word about private free city's and how that could be .
now i really have a problem ,. for i do not speak or understand any Russian ;-)
I never planned this either ,. i just rolled in to it .
All i ever wanted was to be free .
Keep that position friend ,. and maybe one day , blurt may change .
If not ,. i respect and credit you for giving it a good try .
The same way i respect the penguin for doing his thing .
( @lucylin is no anarcho-capitalist ,. he beliefs in monarchy ,. just look how he always calls himself a king )
,. yep , ridicule , it is a potent weapon ,. or at least something to make the targeted have a laugh .
;-)
...and ^this ^ is why you should be president ! ..lol..
Good comment - in the early days of steem there wasn't enough time in the day to post, read and reply to such posts/comments - then the system showed itself to be 'not fit for the (supposedly intended) purpose.
I'm not quite the idealist you think, my friend - and I'm not an anarcho capitalist , either - soz @small1axe !lol) - see the same belief in the pareto principle as the reason I'm not, and as you stated with the problems of 'the 80%'.
As for your perspectives on DPoS - we do differ. Not from ideological issues, but pragmatic ones.
Pragmatic issues concerning the human condition, and the various psychologies - that can be clearly seen to manifest themselves over the last 6 years.
If I'm incorrect, time will tell - but I see no evidence, as yet - that suggests I am.
As such, I will 'do my thing'...according to my own ethical framework and free market principles.
Cheers, matey.
Anarcho-capitalism is so 2019 ,. it is Volunairyist individual now .
The capital became just a handy tool .
Whoops !,.. those fermented sardines ,. Burp ! ,. sorry .
;-)
We're gonna need a bigger plane...
If there is going to be war let it be a star wars edition damnit. I want to choke my dick with the force.
I hope we get a princess Leia, upgrade !
Sorry , even if it seems lots of people thinking they live on a other planet ,. there still is only one planet .
So no space ships needed ,. a truth bombing plane or ridicule missile will just do fine .
This so called war is only a mental construct of the mind and not for real .
I am a non violent person ,. i only shoot mental bullets straight from my mind .
If they become physical on me for that ,. i will become violent just to defend myself .
Just watch a episode of Buck Rogers ,. and see how it was pushing the alphabet community .
And the plan to create Ai .
That armband and metal kid are enough to choke a real mans dick .
;-)
Crapitalism and anarchy. Do they contradict each other?
(Some)Anarchy principles is to have no ruling class. Pushes for a voluntary society. Organizations is good. Ridicules and opposes ideas that require force and deceptive psychological ideas.
Here is an example on how a world may look like when cult think isn't such a big issue anymore:
And then there were none by Eric Frank Russell
Crap|it|all|ism - I have some favors towards traditional capitalism, without the existence of central banks or banks period for that matter.
Anyways, the crapitalism of today is, accept there is a ruling class that decides for us what the price should be and how much of our labor goes to those that do nothing for us. Wealth distribution of your labor without your say so.
Here's your paycheck economic slave.
Where as traditional capitalism, everyone can be there own boss. Money flows evenly all about. People add value and they get to decide how to to sell it and distribute it and not the higher ups alone like in modern crapitalism.
Mostly though, because of cult think, crapitalist will use "government" to force people to work and guilt trip them into feeling honored to work harder for less.
I think it is possible though, if human condition can stable around the idea of voluntary doesn't mean obedience, buuut that is what tools are for, because we can all defend ourselves if things get hot. If it ain't a gun its a knife, or bows and arrows, or rocks, fists, teeth. Literally anything can become a weapon.
When more lose their cult and take the authority glasses off, they will see anarchy always was, and we can have capitalism without the crap in it.
central banks = no free market capitalism.
Mathematically impossible, when the issuer of 'money' and debt, decides on the value of it as well (interest rates).
Capital is just the recourse needed to build what ever kind of society on .
That's why it is so funny to see a commie spit on capitalism .
For capitalism is the base for communism to .
Thinking it is a good thing to take by force someones private capital to make it public capital is pure evil . As we know by now it is public capital that is always used to create a war .
BTW ,. don't tell ,. but i am really a pirate .
I used to force government owned merchant ships to give me the goods .
And gave the crew of the entered ship always a choice ,.
Join me or be dropped of at the nearest shore .
Hollywood made me look not that good .
So i now call myself a non violent voluntaryist anarchist instead .
Just to get rid of that falsely given bad reputation .
;-)