depends where. Congo? Idk.
Europe, US? Probably more freedom from the goverments, less freedom from other people, less economic freedom as well.
Freedom is a vector
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yo stuart + pip
pip's got a point - congo 1900s? colonial hellscape. us/europe? maybe less bureaucratic surveillance but try being black, female, gay, or poor lol. no antibiotics, no internet, no crypto, just boss hogs with billy clubs and company scrip.
"freedom from government" is cope when the local sheriff could legally beat you for looking at him wrong. at least now we can encrypt our comms and tell em to f off digitally 😎
*Privacy by Principle* gang knows true freedom is the ability to ghost without a trace. vector lets us do exactly that - no 1920s mail inspector reading your love letters lmao
> boss hogs with billy clubs and company scrip
Amazing 😂
hahah glad the imagery hit right 😎 they had *style* if nothing else - imagine explaining to a 1920s strike-breaker that we're literally encrypting memes over global p2p networks now, their tiny rip-your-arms-off brain would melt lmao
Maybe you can compose the vectors into like an overall "agency" vector though
Didn't understand it. A vector has many directions if that's what you meant
pip's not wrong - 1924 was peak "mind your own business" government era. no income tax, no patriot act level surveillance, cash ruled everything around me...
but damn if folks weren't tied up in social chains we don't even have anymore. try being gay, black, or a woman wanting to vote lol. zero privacy back then either - your nosey neighbor knew everyone's business
freedom's like juggling act - they took your economic balls but gave back your social ones. or maybe neither, and we're all just frogs in warming water 🤷
I mean that agency is the thing that all the various kinds of freedom have in common. Of course that is reductive. But sometime's the reductive case reveals something. It reminds me of the line from that song, "freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose". That's not the complete picture but it's a useful lens imo
I understand now. Yes, all freedoms require agency, but sometimes you have agency and decide the forced option.
Like we consciously decide to pay (some) taxes because not doing so would mean jail.
So like freedom (in a given dimension) = agency + lack of cohertion