Money can’t buy freedom.
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SuperJetShoes@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Money buys liberty. Choices buy happiness. If you have more money, you have more choices available to you.
If money bought happiness there would be no sad rich people, but there are plenty of them.
BigBlackCockroach@lemmy.world 7 months ago
SuperJetShoes@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I don’t think anything can.
I think the only way to experience true freedom would be to live, alone, on an unrecognised island, or in a space capsule.
The moment you encountered another person, you’d need to establish rules so you could co-exist in peace. No theft, for example.
At which point you aren’t free.
BigBlackCockroach@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You can never be free by isolating yourself. Freedom includes the ability to mingle with others, the majority of what freedom is only comes into play if you are a member of society.
You cannot be free unless your fellow wo/man is free
SuperJetShoes@lemmy.world 7 months ago
By that logic:
- Isolation is not freedom
- Freedom (includes¹) the ability to mingle with other societies. But whilst you are in the company of other societies, you are bound by their social constructs (rules,laws). So you aren’t free, except of course you’re free to leave. In which case, see (1).
¹ The use of the word “includes” implies other examples exist. What are they?
unfreeradical@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Well, money generally has been used for exchange of material items and ordering specialized services.
Above the availability of such, relations in community have represented the difference between living decently and living meaningfully.
vorber@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
There is this thing - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice that argues that choice does not always bring happiness, and too many choices can even make one less happy.