Bidbots aren't capitalist, but rather communist, and gift economies aren't communist, but are neither capitalist. There are many more economic models than communist and capitalist, although most are more like one or the other. I'm not an economist, and haven't made a study of the field, so don't expect a lot of jargon from me.

Suppose a guy is wandering in the wilderness and finds a beautiful stream in a glade in the woods. He falls in love with the place, builds a cabin, and dams the stream to make a pond, where he raises ducks, and uses the water to irrigate his crop he grows in the glade. Free enterprise, right?

One day a war party shows up at his door. A village downstream has been afflicted with a drought because the guy has dammed their stream and diverted their water source. Do they scalp him, or walk away because he's just entitled to do whatever he wants?

The rewards pool is being sold by bidbots. Like the forest stream, it's not theirs to divert. What bidbots do isn't free enterprise, it's essentially theft of a common resource no one has a right to sell. The enclosure movement in England caused people to die, so bidbots are relatively benign, yet the principle is the same: profiteering by taking from people what they don't take from you first.

Communism is a form of collectivism that involves a state that takes all resources, say, the rewards pool, and doles it out equally. A couple things. We've never seen an actual communist government, because no state ever doles things out per the rhetoric, but parcels out far more generous portions to a favored few. Also, that's pretty much what bidbots do. That's why they're more communist than free enterprise. But capitalism is also more communist than free enterprise.

Being similar words, community and communism sound like they mean the same thing, but they don't. When I was a child in Paris, I lived in a community (actually a smaller town just outside Paris) where the people had various free enterprise businesses, or worked for large industries or government. The streets were lined with small shops that each specialized to a degree that was astounding to me. There were Boulangeries, Patisseries, and other shops, all specialized kinds of bakeries. There was a fishmonger, a butcher, a tobacconist, etc.

That's free enterprise, and on Steemit, it's like posting your own content that the community can 'buy' with an upvote. Bidbots are like Walmart coming in and replacing all the little shops and shopkeepers with their megastores. That's far more collectivist than it is free enterprise, even if they are able to undercut the local shops on price long enough to bankrupt them before they jack up the prices and become profitable.

Walmart has deep pockets, capital, with which it can afford to sustain a lengthy period of taking losses while the shopkeepers can't. Capitalism isn't free enterprise, it's monopolism, corporatism, and rapine destruction, rather than progress.

That's bidbots.

That's capitalism and collectivism, both quite similar in many respects, rather than opposites as we have been indoctrinated to believe.

Free enterprise isn't capitalism, it's people employing their share of a resource and adding value, like air, water, land, etc., not seizing the whole of the resource like the enclosure movement in England that caused devastating economic catastrophe for the common people that had shared the grazing lands for centuries before it was fenced to keep their flocks out.

It's not communism to say we all have a share in air, water, and land. It's the fact of life, of the nature of humanity. Which deer owns the forest? Which otter owns the river? Which human owns the cropland in N. America? Monsanto, a legal person.

That's not free enterprise, it's piracy.