>I think societies don't become free before they get prosperous. Put more bluntly: Freedoms don't put food on your table, but killing the bastard next door so

>I think societies don't become free before they get prosperous. Put more bluntly: Freedoms don't put food on your table, but killing the bastard next door so you can use his land might. Guess what hungry people will do. So you are quite right; freedoms only become a concern once the people have most if not all their immediate needs satisfied. People need to enjoy life first before they will start caring about freedoms. Of course, the vicious cycle is that being poor is expensive. It's not easy to break it and start accumulating societal prosperity.