Such as hierarchies.
People who worry about hierarchies, and who believe them to be incompatible with anarchy, bewilder me.
There are legitimate hierarchies and illegitimate ones.
If I hire you to do a specific job for me, my insistence on you doing that job is a legitimate hierarchy.
If you are elected into some position and claim that gives you the "authority" to order me around, that is an illegitimate hierarchy.
If I can't specify certain outcomes in exchange for my paying you, then I'm not going to pay you. In fact, I won't trade with you at all- "pay" doesn't have to mean only money. It doesn't mean I am "over" you in any way, but it means we agreed that I would give you something in exchange for something else. I am not exploiting you unless I force you into an arrangement where you aren't willing to be. In which case self defense seems to be in order, not whining over hierarchies.
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