Thanks for your comments.

There are interpretations of how things should be, how things used to be, and there are interpretations of how they actually are at present. Hence the title of my blog.

I wouldn't want to "live in an anarcho-socialist" society either, and I'm not arguing that you should. This is a blockchain platform, a microcosm, not a society in which you live.

This is why we need to respect the upvote autonomy of large stakeholders if we want to retain them.

Let people who buy a bunch of steem do whatever they want in relation to the reward pool? We've been there and done that. I have zero interest in retaining those who exploit the reward pool at the expense of everyone else, no matter how much steem they decide to buy or hold.