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America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and i have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. and in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. the only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.

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Tom Morello

America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and i have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. once you exercise this freedom you’ve lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. and in the end, the product doesn’t belong to you. the only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don’t care about making a living. which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve.

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This was mahatma gandhi’s idea, moving from ownership to relationship—seeing that land does not belong to us. we belong to the land. we are not the owners of the land. we are the friends of the land, like friends of the earth. the fundamental shift is in this consciousness that land does not belong to us, we belong to the land.

You go ask any founder of any company why he or she did it, you will never hear, "i wanted to create jobs for the community" as the number one, number two, number three, number four, number five, number 10 reason for doing so. that is a result of the success the business enjoys. creating jobs is not why people start businesses. creating jobs is not how people innovate in business. it's not how they compete.

Wake up, america. the insurance companies took over health care. wake up, america. the pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing. wake up, america. the speculators took over wall street. wake up, america. they want to take your social security. wake up, america. multinational corporations took over our trade policies, factories are closing, good paying jobs lost. wake up, america. we went into iraq for oil.

For example, the supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of what the persons employed do. that is clearly wrong. if all we want are jobs, we can create any number--for example, have people dig holes and then fill them up again, or perform other useless tasks. work is sometimes its own reward. mostly, however, it is the price we pay to get the things we want. our real objective is not just jobs but productive jobs--jobs that will mean more goods and services to consume.

Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. when we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our american heritage. america was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry... there is no place for dogma in science. the scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. our political life is also predicated on openness. we know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. and we know that as long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress.

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