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Would you rather be rich and enslaved or free and poor?

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Joel Walbert 5mo ago

Free and poor with zero doubt. I am pretty poor, and its very freeing.

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SuiGenerisJohn 5mo ago

FWIW, I don't think you can be free and poor, because if you're free you cannot be poor.

Joel Walbert 5mo ago

How so? I dont need material wealth to be free.

SuiGenerisJohn 5mo ago

I was trying to figure out a way to word this. What I mean is, if you are free then that is axiomatically the opposite of poverty regardless of relative wealth. Freedom can be a consequence of wealth but the state of poverty inhabits the body of no free man.

Joel Walbert 5mo ago

Well, the question seemed to imply material wealth. Rich or poor.

SuiGenerisJohn 5mo ago

I was trying to flip the script.

Joel Walbert 5mo ago

Oh I get it. And I agree with you. But that's not what the OP was asking.

SuiGenerisJohn 5mo ago

🤝

Joel Walbert 5mo ago

For me, I measure wealth by my health. And in that sense, billionaires aint got shit on me

stache 5mo ago

🤔…all I know is the great Janis Japlin once said “freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose”

…it’s my 2cd favorite snippet from a lyric of all time🫡🌅⭕️

SuiGenerisJohn 5mo ago

🤯