>For most people, freedom means something like, "My partner and I will work our whole entire lives doing things we don't really like, possibly be out of debt by

>For most people, freedom means something like, "My partner and I will work our whole entire lives doing things we don't really like, possibly be out of debt by retirement, at which point our kids will be in debt. Then we can travel the world and spend the rest on our healthcare." The fact that they can do that seems good enough for them. Well it's better than what we had before. 5-15 centuries ago, freedom meant something like, "My family will toil all day long, with no vacation, for our whole entire lives in some feudal lord's fields doing backbreaking work in exchange for getting to live in a crappy shack with dirt floors and have some crappy low-nutrition food and not getting murdered by robbers. Our kids will work for the same lord or his heirs. Travel is just a fantasy."