In so far it's anarchic (anarchic systems don't exist, but you can have systems in an anarchical world) that there are no rulers that can force you to do anything.
To call them leaders............. I don't know. Steemit is a, or is like a, company.... social media. (but they are not you boss either) They could any time remove the monetary aspect from the posts (I guess) and continue like a sort of facebook or twitter or so (I'm not familiar with other social media)
What happens with reward pool "rape" is maybe built in, but then again If you are on instagram, you get nothing.
There is not even a reward pool to be "raped".
I edited in some komma's etc. to make it better readable :)
Actually, I'm advocating to get rid of the reward pool system and introduce a tipping system.
I've discussed the mathematics of the reward pool abuse with some brilliant people. The conclusion I came to is, that reward pool abuse in the current system can be mathematically proven to exist. There's no way around it.
The only way around the abuse is to replace it with the tipping system.
If you are a Steem Power investor and you don't want your share of the reward pool to be abused, vote at least ten times every day.