When you are given "freedom," by extension I get the same freedom.
It is funny that it needs to be given, isn't it?
As for the "income" part; nobody works for Steem, nobody is under contract with Steem, nobody was promised a damn thing here.
Yep and it is a completely opt-in system and, opt-out also. People come to earn off steem which is fine but expect that anything goes still gets paid as if that is the way it should work. Free market means, anything goes, including retaliatory flags if someone chooses to.
You are incorrect.
Free markets do not encompass retaliatory actions as part of the dynamic.
Retaliation means in reaction to an aggressive action ( contravening the non aggression principle)
If the NAP is not contravened, it cannot be retaliatory , but initiated.
The upvotes given are a positive action - free market.
The downvote is a negative action - not free market.
defending the action 'becuase that's the system does not make it morally correct, using the true free market principles as the template.