Maybe it’s not a binary thing of “your money is free or not free” but rather it is and always has been on a scale. There have always been things it hasn’t been

Maybe it’s not a binary thing of “your money is free or not free” but rather it is and always has been on a scale. There have always been things it hasn’t been ok to purchase, but as per comments above, it’s the ability to enforce these whims on a global scale that’s new