"Freedom" is completely orthogonal to having to worry about basic needs. You can guarantee every citizen's basic comfortable survival, and still have a great de

"Freedom" is completely orthogonal to having to worry about basic needs. You can guarantee every citizen's basic comfortable survival, and still have a great deal of personal freedom and even a market economy. It just means moderately high taxes and the government owning a lot of capital. The world's post-industrial history is extremely short, and everything we've seen thus far is some kind of historical accident. Other futures are always possible.