The Musketeer blockchain and anarcho-capitalists

Patience, I am losing it. I used to be very patient as I was growing up but now that I think back, perhaps it was more a fear to failure, success or other's judgement of me in either scenario. What if my view of myself as a patient person was just a justification, a trick my mind played to protect my ego, the emotional view of how I see who I am. It wouldn't surprise me, minds are manipulative like that and can subtly push themselves into a position of power and power, makes us blind.

It has been a little over a year since I have been here and I have seen all kinds of behaviours, I have been part of many kinds myself. Much of it has been directed at trying to build the community so I and more of the 'I's can do well here and help others do well also, whether here or in their localised environments. Although nowhere to their level of drive, determination and influence, like the post I wrote last night about the greatest failures, I have failed too. I don't feel that I am making the inroads I was hoping for in the time frame I was aiming for.

My goal was to grow and have the influence to help more grow and although I have somewhat done this and share influence down the blockchain, I don't have a lot of chance to influence upwards and that is a problem as rather than a community, we have a hierarchical system where layers below are unable to affect those above. This is going to be an ongoing problem of course and one that already exists. It is called reality, we walk it everyday.

At some point however, reality bites and unlike the real world where people are bound by borders and still have to eat, here they can just walk away and find a home at another platform, on another blockchain even. It is not like competition isn't going to continually push at Steems door, as brilliant as the Steem blockchain is, it is not untouchable in the future. This means that the entire idea surrounding Steem has to develop and grow and that by default means the community must grow too, not just the numbers though as it is the value and ethical systems that are of most importance.

What many seem not to realise is that Steem is fundamentally different to most of the other coins as it is connected to a community and derives its value from sharing its value. Many people however treat it like a stacking coin that has no value other than what it can be bought and sold for. Many of the first users into the platform were crypto traders with their world view and the supporting habits of that of stackers, where every percentage, every coin counted and for the most part, it was All for one' yet many are yet to adjust their behaviour to onboard the other side of that concept, 'One for all.'

But, when I look into the community, some of the most supported are vote trading, delegation abusing, scam shilling, deceitful, pool abusing members here. This is not all by a long way and it is definitely not limited to the top echelons of the platform, it flows all the way through and affects all of us alike, whether we are part of the problem, attempting for solution or passive on both fronts.

Steem is a Musketeer coin, I don't know if that is a real thing but, the community benefits from individuals of any size who support it, and every individual benefits from the community. I don't have solutions on how to tackle this issue as each can do with their stake as they choose, right? They can upvote their comments to the moon, hoard their votes and only share it with their friends (or sockpuppets as the case may be), trade vote for vote or do whatever they do to maximise themselves.

So many here think that if they provide others with value, it is value away from them and they call themselves anarcho-capitalists. How can that be if they are unwilling to build a community that supports such an ideal, when they act much more like the oppressors and dictators of the real world they have admonished for their greed, than those who look for a free market.

Vote buying and trading is what happens in governments between parties and lobby groups, delegation abuse is when the politicians take the licence afforded them by the public to build community and use it to build themselves and their friends instead, and the skimming and siphoning through sockpuppet accounts is no different than the off-shore accounts to avoid paying what others must locally.

There is no tax responsibility in this community but there is responsibility. If the concept of a tax did exist here, it would be that everyone has a duty to put back into the community, to help it and its members grow based on the efforts they put in to do the same. Instead, it seems that most want to take what they earn here and buy a Lambo. To me, that means all they want to do is buy back into the system they have shunned, just at a higher rung on the ladder, one where they are more comfortable even if it comes at the expense of others. They want a designer blue pill, not the generic.

I don't know much about politics, or economics or idealistic concepts of governance but, this place is much like the real world and unfortunately, people are acting much like they do in the real world, a system that is broken and failing. They bring in their conceptual values they have learned as opposition to what they have experienced and instead of understanding it enough to behave differently, they act like the monkeys they were trained to be by those who they rebelled against.

I don't know, I don't know but, I am growing impatient. I don't know what that means either but I think I am failing somewhere and I don't know where that is. I don't know what more I can personally do to help myself and help others, I don't know how to get the support to do so. The only thing I know is that I will keep exploring and pushing to find a way as my dreams are much, much larger than to be where I am today, and my ability to help others is much too small to be enough for the future. Where is the balance point and how is it possible when the Musketeers are under the control of the Kings and Queens and the mercy or tyranny they inflict?

Taraz
[ a Steemit original ]