>On the one hand, I have no boss, so I can’t be sacked – everything about every single aspect of my day and my work is entirely up to me. From that point of view, I’m about as free as it is possible for a person to be. On the other hand, I have no job security or protection of any kind. If people don’t want to read what I write, I have no income .

We always have "boss". It doesn't matter if it's my manager at my day job, or my customers at the startup I'm working on. We all serve a master. Even the hobo on the street looks for food when his stomach directs him to do so.

I don't think money itself is freedom, or that it could buy it. Though it does buy nice things. Freedom is being able to pro-actively direct your life, move your life. Freedom is being the boss, freedom is being the hobo. They are equal in my book.