Wage slavery. The US is one of the worst offenders. By binding your healthcare to your employer and having next to no worker protection laws, the loss of your job might cause homelessness or death. Is that really a choice? Work or die? And with stagnating wages who has the financial security and time to fight for their rights?
This is of course by design.
Everyone here should remember the story of Damocles. One of the things I enjoy about being poor is that I have nothing for people to steal. I don’t worry about muggings, carjackings, home invasions, kidnapping. When you have money, a line starts to form to take it from you.
This is freedom under capitalism
Welcome to left libertarianism. Cheers, you can vape in the hot tub but please no glass.
Slavery is not being denied the ability to earn wages.
Slavery is being denied the ability to save.
Freedom to toil, freedom to starve, freedom to suffer without medicine or medical care. Freedom to freeze on the cold and bake in the sun.
It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.
Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.
- Some guy
We lost our freedom when they took away the ability to put together a group of people/solo and go on an expedition/excursion because you had the resources and the want to. now we’re slaves
Maybe freedom as in financial freedom? I feel trapped cause of trauma and stuff but there’s layers.
Like an onion
like an ogre
like a cake
They smell?
They make you cry?
The USA you’re free to do whatever you like as long as it’s these few specific things we believe are economically beneficial to the leaders but not you.
The economy is designed to keep you locked into working for the rest of your life under stress. Freedom is only given to capitalists because that’s how the system is designed.
One loophole is stealing.
Unironically what natives of the Great Lakes region have been saying about the “civilized” western way of life for centuries.
You have stumbled onto one of the most fundamental criticisms of modern capitalism, freedom & plenty for the few. It’s better than a hereditary feudal system in that upward class mobility isn’t categorically forbidden, but the reality for the vast majority of people is that actually moving up is not possible because the game is still rigged to produce almost exactly the same results as the old system.
Yep, for more information on that read Debt: the First 5000 Years, it goes pretty deep into it from both anthropological and political perspectives
I would say more to the point if everything in life needs to make a profit then freedom isn’t free
