STO: Well meant and unintentional slavery

[Snowflower]

In the book, "Ishmael," by Daniel Quinn, he talks about the slavery of every single one of us that was done by "locking up the food." As long as we are free to find our own food (hunter/gatherer) then we also have the freedom to choose what we are going to do with the rest of our lives. If we are not free to find food, we therefore become slaves to who ever it is that has control over the food. We must do whatever "they" want us to do in order to obtain food.

We believe we are free because we can choose between this job or that job, or this career, or between poverty and wealth according to our choices of employment and money-acquisition, but we are not free when we must take an action to generate the money to buy food. (And, although food is the item specified, the principle would apply equally to all necessities of life: shelter, clothing, medicine, water.)