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Originally posted by rickholio
Sure they're opting in, but is there *really* a choice there? You could walk a nihilist's path and say you could always take the ultimate exit instead of __fill_in_the_blank__ but it doesn't mean these people have any reasonable options.
Being given a choice between 'worse' and 'really fucking worse get ready to die you'll smell really bad before you go cuz you ain't washed for a month' isn't much of a choice.
All that being said, I know this is just sitting up front in my mind cuz I've been working 16 hour days now for a few months and I'm starting to go a little stir crazy wondering wtf it's all for... my choice, such as it is, is "work like a madman to keep my family fed and my contractees happy while letting my body and relationships deteriorate" vs. "live in 'cozy' tar paper shack down by the river amusing myself by pulling the ice from my eyelashes when the temperature dips so low they freeze shut in the night." 
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sure.... welcome to being free.
The popular misconception is that "freedom" means "the gravy train". Who the hell ever said anything was gonna be easy? Point is, you
have that option.
Other non-free systems have been tried. Governments that will provide you with a shack, some beans, choose a role in life for you, and make sure you don't ever deviate from that. Is that better? Not for me.
Freedom allows people to bitch and complain about old ass condom laws in Wisconsin, whereas somewhere else, they may very well be thrown in prison, have their families burned alive and their dog skinned & eaten for even thinking the government is wrong.
It amuses me to no end when people bitch about not being free in the US..... You're perfectly free to be miserable and suffer in homelessness your whole life, or go all the way to the top and live like a king. But ya still gotta work for it. No one is about to hand it to anyone on a silver platter. "I don't have it, therefore I'm not free"
funny stuff....
