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Yes, wealth can mitigate attacks on your freedom. But for everyone to financially maintain their other freedoms requires a degree of economic freedom not afford
by mindslight 3y ago
Yes, wealth can mitigate attacks on your freedom. But for everyone to financially maintain their other freedoms requires a degree of economic freedom not afforded by basically any country on earth. Instead we mostly have managed fiat currencies that are continually inflated, vacuuming real wealth towards a politically-connected center, and making it so that only a fraction of the population can ever be capable of amassing enough wealth to purchase freedom. So your argument is a bit specious in the world we actually have, and ignoring that it falls apart is a recipe for justifying oppression.
Coming at it from another direction, I'd say that government guarantees of freedom are essentially non-fungible assets that resist the ability for lopsided/captured/coercive markets to financially strip them.