People often don’t really appreciate how much freedom they have until it’s taken away.
But even with no money at all, I have a bike, and I can ride it as far as I care to in any direction I want (well, at least until I hit a border). And that is so much more freedom than I’ve had at other points in my life.
Okay… but what happens when you’re hungry and broke at the same time? Just gonna ride your bike until you happen to come across someone handing out free food? The ‘ability to bike around the block’ isn’t the kind of freedom that OP was talking about, it’s the freedom to do what you want with your life without being forced to do something else (make money) first
How would you get food and healthcare? What about people with a chronic condition where if they lose their healthcare they won’t physically be able to?
Eh, yes and no.
People often don’t really appreciate how much freedom they have until it’s taken away.
But even with no money at all, I have a bike, and I can ride it as far as I care to in any direction I want (well, at least until I hit a border). And that is so much more freedom than I’ve had at other points in my life.
Hard to ride a bike when you don’t have your health, sadly.
Okay… but what happens when you’re hungry and broke at the same time? Just gonna ride your bike until you happen to come across someone handing out free food? The ‘ability to bike around the block’ isn’t the kind of freedom that OP was talking about, it’s the freedom to do what you want with your life without being forced to do something else (make money) first
And what I’m talking about is that when you don’t have ‘ability to bike around the block’ freedom, that really puts things in perspective for you.
How would you get food and healthcare? What about people with a chronic condition where if they lose their healthcare they won’t physically be able to?
Hint: we don’t get healthcare typicaly anyway.