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By "the shackles are in your mind" you mean "if you consciously suppress the fact that if you choose to stop working you'll starve and be homeless, you're alrea

• fhood 9y ago
  I think that you are being unfair. There will always be "shackles". Sometimes changing your perspective is more valuable than changing your situation.
  • ahelwer 9y ago
    Nobody is claiming you will be free of all shackles. Everyone has only a slim margin of subjectivity they can use to control the course of their life. An incomplete list of things to which we are subjected, largely outside of our control (which we might call shackles): * Severe medical problems, some resulting in instant death (like an aneurysm rupturing) * Accidents resulting in damage to your person, especially car accidents * Disability, ethnic makeup, sexual preference, parental social class, etc. which restrict opportunities available to you in our current society We aren't talking about any of that. We are talking about things which fall within our margin of subjectivity, which for some fortunate people (especially highly-paid software engineers) includes work. To deny this reality and the terms of your participation is to live inauthentically.
• cko 9y ago
  It really depends. You could really just drop out and be free right now. Live in a tent somewhere and dumpster dive for food. There are so many ways. But the “shackles” of retirement income and medical bills and comfort hold us back. One man’s necessity is another man’s luxury. I envy those people who don’t worry about the future and live the bohemian life - I don’t think they are lying to themselves though. People are diverse.