This article really touches on something I've thought a lot about. People are supposed to be indepependent. The freedom-loving spark is in all of us, and when w

This article really touches on something I've thought a lot about. People are supposed to be indepependent. The freedom-loving spark is in all of us, and when we work for a behemoth organization or spend all day long taking orders from some arbitrary boss, we lose something. We change somehow. Not that following a great leader is a bad thing, because it's not. Following a great leader is actually one of the best ways to learn (think getting mentoring by a successful entrepreneur... or reading and trying to live by the great works of Aristotle, Ghandi, Christ, etc.) But there is a big difference between voluntarily choosing to follow a great leader, and being told that you must follow a leader. And if you miss work for 3 days, "we'll find somebody else." 120 years ago, 90% of Americans owned their own land and their own companies (usually farms). Today, the opposite is true. 10% of Americans own their own land (sorry, a $500,000 mortgage on a $501,000 house doesn't count. Try not paying your mortgage for 3 months and see who owns that land)... and 10% of Americans have their own companies. Maybe Americans are mostly living below their potential today...