Why freedom is suffocating
June 30th, 2025
Freedom is suffocating because it awards you options. Yes, freedom empowers you to have options. If you live in America, there is no better place on earth for the opportunity to get rich. But freedom comes at a cost.
Freedom gives birth to expectation. Not only because you live in America can you get rich, but because you live in America if you don't get rich it's because you couldn't.
If I were a middle-aged peasant farmer in the Dark Ages of Europe, would I ever be upset that I were poor? I'd beg to even ask what sort of nonsensical question you're saying! "I am a peasant so I am poor." The idea of social mobility wouldn't even be known to me, perhaps unless I joined the army, but even then, why do that at all?
As a peasant because there'd be no options, I'd accept my allotment in life with dignity, and I wouldn't be floundering about trying to climb some social ladder.
In America, there's almost a shame in not trying to climb that ladder, where the floor is rising lava. Thanks to the economic state of the world, of course.