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