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Freedom is the ability to do what one wants, on the provision it harms nobody else's ability to be free. (therefore, mugging, raping, killing, and other things that hamper other people are not acceptable.) Freedom is about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Since when is dying, stuck in a job all the time, unable to pursue one's dream being able to be free?
But if the job was exciting and novel. with growth, the longer hours wouldn't matter as much.
As I know for computer support, long, tedious, stressful hours of sitting at a desk on the phone or running around to fix a small problem (seven days a week, at varied hours) is no way a person should have to live. The stress has nearly toppled me before, I'm a bit worried about its future, I know the "projected number of jobs" in the field is set to grow by 2014 (despite looking at real world evidence that shows every one of those bullplop job bank statistics can't take real life into account).
If America's idea, from the very onset, was solely about chasing money, the vast majority of Americans wouldn't be free at all.
Integrating the ability to survive and prosper into our freedoms isn't a bad idea, but with the control of the "big box" stores uprooting and rotting the concept of "community", it makes dreams impossible and survival more like prison all the time. Ask any walmart employee, who because of the pay can't get educated, the equipment, or pretty much anything else to escape that type of job to do something proper with their God-given talents.
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