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What Freedom Means to Me
Freedom is a 7-letter word which in English can mean all sorts of things. In some languages, it's indistinguishable from holidays (same word).
To me, "freedom" means I do what I want to do.
To me, "freedom" means I do what I deem to be right. Moral, just, necessary etc.
To me, "freedom" means I need not fear some boss or a parent or a spouse.
"Freedom" in my desk has a meaning also, or a perceivable sense of control.
The programs do what I want them to do - that's "freedom".
If I want to upgrade, then I do. If not, stay out of my way. Thank you for the offer anyway. I have the "freedom"... to choose.
At the end of the day I go to sleep when I feel tired, not when some timesheet or some rota tells me to. My body knows better than someone else's pieces of paper. That's "freedom"... for my body and for my brain.
If I feel sleepy, I take a nap. No need to hide it. That's "freedom". Alternatively, just get up and brew some coffee. That's also "freedom". The brewing might take 5 minutes... or half an hour. Whatever suits the mood and needs. That's "freedom".
In the typical workplace, the office in the "RTO" sense, there is very little "freedom". At best, one can choose the range of times for work, not the length of the work (duration). That's hardly "freedom". There's a saying, "pick your poison..."
Of course consumerism isn't a matter of "freedom". It's something else altogether. And even all the money in the world cannot help a frail old man ski again, so that person's "freedom" is probably only something inside the head, the mind.
Once people have a good comprehension of what "freedom" is (or means), people may soon realise that pupils (young people) have very little "freedom" and people in employment at GAFAM are just highly-paid slaves in golden cages, "collecting capital" for some distant and elusive "retirement" (when they will likely be too old to exercise true "freedom"). █
