I think that we are free and we are not free. What I mean by that is that if you want certain things in life, services, material possessions, or homes that cost money, you can't just get them, you have to work for them. And not everybody is going to be able to achieve a job which pays six figures a year. And when they do, the amount of time they need to spend devoted to work and not just being able to do what they want when they want becomes a large percentage of their time. And if they can't get a job like that, they won't be able to afford the services, material things, or homes that they wish. So in that sense, we are definitely not free. Only the few exceptional people who've inherited an incredibly large amount of money would really be free in that sense.
In another sense, we are all free, unless you're incarcerated. We're all free what career path to choose, what job to look for, what school to go to, you're free to choose either school, vocational training, or just look for a job, you're free to try and start your own business and make it take off too. You are free to choose where ever you want to live (as long as you can afford it), and if we wanted, we could roam the country freely and wander around, not have to report back anywhere, can sleep where we want, eat what you want, don't have to have anywhere you'd have to go back to, and you can do it all legally (as long as you're not wandering onto someone's farm property).
Does freedom really exist?
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I think that we are free and we are not free. What I mean by that is that if you want certain things in life, services, material possessions, or homes that cost money, you can't just get them, you have to work for them. And not everybody is going to be able to achieve a job which pays six figures a year. And when they do, the amount of time they need to spend devoted to work and not just being able to do what they want when they want becomes a large percentage of their time. And if they can't get a job like that, they won't be able to afford the services, material things, or homes that they wish. So in that sense, we are definitely not free. Only the few exceptional people who've inherited an incredibly large amount of money would really be free in that sense.
In another sense, we are all free, unless you're incarcerated. We're all free what career path to choose, what job to look for, what school to go to, you're free to choose either school, vocational training, or just look for a job, you're free to try and start your own business and make it take off too. You are free to choose where ever you want to live (as long as you can afford it), and if we wanted, we could roam the country freely and wander around, not have to report back anywhere, can sleep where we want, eat what you want, don't have to have anywhere you'd have to go back to, and you can do it all legally (as long as you're not wandering onto someone's farm property).