>This is like saying that caged mice have a better quality of life than wild mice because they have more free time, a reliable source of food, and no predators:

>This is like saying that caged mice have a better quality of life than wild mice because they have more free time, a reliable source of food, and no predators: it completely discounts the value of freedom. You have that backwards. It's the only way to get anything resembling freedom for more than the top 20% of the population.