2006-12-15 10:50:29 · 6 answers · asked by John 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I find the quest for "financial freedom" in America one of our most interesting performative contradictions.
Our goal to achieve financial freedom carries within it an acknowledgment that we are unfree until we collect enough money to cease working for wages if we so desire. Most of us will spend the vast majority of our time engaged in just this quest.
By definition the unfree are either slaves or prisoners. Because the unfreedom implied in the quest for financial freedom is one of labor rather than movement this unfreedom more closely resembles slavery. Therefore, those of us who have not achieved financial freedom are slaves to finance. Our obligation to procure dollars to secure both our present and future survival must be our primary concern. I am fairly certain most of us will fulfill this obligation in "jobs" that we would quit tomorrow if we actually achieved financial freedom. This would also imply coercion rather than choice.
The performative contradiction rests in our supposed devotion to freedom in America, yet never really questioning an economic system that reduces most of us to slaves of the dollar. We have huge debates over the right to own a gun or the right to an abortion. We have raging arguments over racial and gender equality. Yet we never ask questions of economic rights or equality. Even as we acknowledge our slavery every time we watch an advertisement for a retirement fund that offers us financial freedom.
2006-12-15 14:21:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Financial freedom means that you have the means to do anything that can be done by paying for it.
And, yes, that is actually very close to true freedom. No matter what people may say about money not buying happiness, people's finacial well-being does have a lot to do with their personal happiness. And if you have enough money, you can do or have pretty much anything you want.
2006-12-15 20:05:20 · answer #2 · answered by Vadalia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are not the same .Financial freedom is ability to spend without thinking about funds. True freedom is a state where you don't have to worry about any thing.
2006-12-16 00:41:20 · answer #3 · answered by Brahmanda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One example of the personification of financial freedom might be Warren Buffet or Bill & Melinda Gates.
The meaning of "true freedom", for all sentient beings, should include an end to suffering.
2006-12-15 19:10:04 · answer #4 · answered by S. B. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What is financial freedom = NO MONEY WORRIES!
what is true freedom = NO BONDAGE TO MAN OR THE WORLD!
2006-12-15 19:40:44 · answer #5 · answered by אידיאליסטי™ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no they are not even close financial freedom means you dont have to worry about money and the riches person in the world May have less freedom than the poorest person in the world because they have to worry about being kidnapped someone stealing there money or suing them a poor person does not have to worry about someone stealing their money because they have none that reminds me of a joke this poor person was outside his house and his friend said hey SAM there is a burglar breaking in your house and the poor person said let him break in he might drop something that i can use
2006-12-15 19:03:36 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋