Everyone here should remember the story of Damocles. One of the things I enjoy about being poor is that I have nothing for people to steal. I don't worry about muggings, carjackings, home invasions, kidnapping. When you have money, a line starts to form to take it from you.

This is freedom under capitalism

Welcome to left libertarianism. Cheers, you can vape in the hot tub but please no glass.

Slavery is not being denied the ability to earn wages.

Slavery is being denied the ability to save.

Freedom to toil, freedom to starve, freedom to suffer without medicine or medical care. Freedom to freeze on the cold and bake in the sun.

We lost our freedom when they took away the ability to put together a group of people/solo and go on an expedition/excursion because you had the resources and the want to. now we're slaves

Maybe freedom as in financial freedom? I feel trapped cause of trauma and stuff but there's layers.

The USA you're free to do whatever you like as long as it's these few specific things we believe are economically beneficial to the leaders but not you.

The economy is designed to keep you locked into working for the rest of your life under stress. Freedom is only given to capitalists because that's how the system is designed.

Unironically what natives of the Great Lakes region have been saying about the "civilized" western way of life for centuries.

Yep, for more information on that read Debt: the First 5000 Years, it goes pretty deep into it from both anthropological and political perspectives

I would say more to the point if everything in life needs to make a profit then freedom isn't free

its by design, politicians billionaire class intentionally instigated this way so people dont start pondering about politics, rising up against the aristocrats.

it's a different kind of freedom.

freedom exists in your mind. ask sartre. i am burdened, but i am radically free.

UBI is far more pluralist than democracy, because democracy is corrupt promises with Zionist/CIA and other power supremacist agendas that only has money for those goals. UBI is the freedom to do anything, including cooperating with others on group enterprises where payoff is future success based.

Where government's role is an administrator taking care of pluralist prosperity/needs of its people, instead of a king/power hierarchy that steals prosperity for its "in group", only UBI can provide the function because people can afford to take care of themselves, and prosperity programs fund more UBI. Every single program/war proposal must be compared to an increased cash dividend to people.

Only pure evil that needs hierarchical slavery for their political power, including the left, opposes UBI, and so UBI cannot come from existing political systems, because they are all pure evil power maximizing.

Yeah. Marx called it formal vs. real freedom. All the people are free to sleep under the bridges or at a five star penthouse. But some are forced to sleep under the bridge and only a few have means to exercise the freedom to enter the penthouse.