The Illusion Of Freedom: What Control Do You Have?
We live in a world where the concept of freedom blinds us to exploitation. We like to flout the word "free" when in reality, no one is ever truly free and nothing is ever free. It's either we're paying knowingly or we're paying unknowingly. Some of the times the system makes us pay knowingly because we tend to calculate bigger losses and ignore smaller losses not knowing that smaller losses are like streams that form an ocean.
Some of the systems that steal from us are banks, but because the aura they bring indicates an all-round safety is why we often ignore their legal thievery. Banks offer insurance, but their terms and conditions make it almost impossible to pay you for any loss you incur, they offer saving schemes to protect your future, and they sell this appeal with fear and uncertainty.
The Illusion Of Safety
This blinds you to other viable ways of taking financial measures, because their voice is legal and strong, back by the government, we often fail to instill a bird-like view into their practices to review their daylight robbery. Some people are not even cognisant of this thievery and this is because a lot of them do not know that the system they're in is a bigger thief than the underlying scams around them.
One thing you must understand is that they're not necessarily, they're compulsory. We need what they offer for online banking, money transfer, and other financial transactions, meaning that even if we're conscious of what they truly are, there's still the Inevitability of using them, what they offer and everything because there's no freedom to choose something else.
When people are truly free, they'll make the ultimate choices that aren't tethered to the profit of anyone
But then
.....this isn't how the world works. People cannot truly make their own choices, sometimes we think our choices are ours, but there are third parties involved that prune our choices and tilt our decisions, giving them a little nudge in such a way that it doesn't benefit only us.
Government is another parastatals that bring the illusion of freedom. First of all, democracy is a mirage and this is because people are not thinking clearly or seeing the bigger picture. In third-world countries, for the system to change, the younger generation would need to seize power.
Give Today, Steal The Future
Rather than having the illusional direction of choosing between a raccoon and a tiger, more like having the freedom to either implode or to further implode. Choices are free but people are incentivized to sell their future by being emotionally appealed to. This is a way to legally steal from people.
Stealing a better future from people that deserve to be better governed is what happens a lot in third-world countries and because politics is more sentimental in places like this, people sell the only power they truly have because of ignorance and poverty. This is why being conscious can be revealing, being conscious is seeing freedom, and the inability to be totally free, especially in a system that exploits people for fun.
The Freedom Of Will
Advertising is another system that exploits. We must understand that the world is rewired for profiteering, so no one's selling us a concept, an idea, or a product that will solely be for our benefit, however, if they're benefiting while we're benefiting, then this is healthy. However, there has to be a balance.
The money we have is an identity of our hard work, irrespective of the fact that we sometimes need guidance on how to spend them, it's important to understand that if this guidance isn't tailored to our advantages, then it's better to spend it foolishly howbeit freely because, at the end of the day, we're the ones that deal with the effects of our choices. Advertising tilts our knowledge to a narrower perspective, just like how betting and gambling ads and programs can be shown on TV but crypto cannot.
Tethered To The Flow Of Advertising
Why not?
While people feel they have the choice to freely watch what they want, they're systematically tied to a series of choices, without the offer to expand beyond this.
We have to understand that freedom is mostly a concept in the mind, in a broader perspective, it's hardly obtainable. However, this doesn't mean we should be tailored to seek only what's available to us.
financial freedom is one of the toughest things out there and people aren't seeking it enough, hence it continuously seems illusive. This means people have to break bounds, in the quest to align the system properly, limiting its influence, especially in the things we should know and what we shouldn't. It's difficult, especially since the only to truly bring change is through revolution, force, and pressure.
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