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Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by 3np on Thursday December 23, 2021 @01:03AM (#29659117)
I mean, if you change the meaning of "freedom" to only mean "having to pay taxes but not for funding wellfare (and being allowed to own and carry firearms, but not information or drugs the government disagrees with)" then the word loses its meaning.

With the same kind reasoning you could argue that the DPRK is the freeest country in the world, for "their flavor of freedom".

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Re:Regulators Shut Down Lending Platform (YC Alum) LendUp by lhorie on Thursday December 23, 2021 @03:03AM (#29659713)
To clarify, I'm not disagreeing with you, nor am I the one changing the meaning of "freedom". I'm merely relaying the ideology that is commonly associated with the word nowadays in the US, in order to make an association between it and the topic of why debt is seemingly so prevalent in the US. If you have a better word than "freedom" in air quotes to describe the ideology I'm describing, by all means do share.
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