I agree, there is no real thing as freedom and even what most consider self-sufficiency is much less than so. Here in this post, I am not getting into the philosophical views of freedom but the personal where I see it as the place to grow and learn from. For me, it is a place of work but what that work is and its purpose is somewhat different than where I largely am spending my time now. I think we can all do a lot better than what we know is 'largely meaningless'.