He makes 8 points, but the last 7 are all things that are presumably true throughout a person&#x27;s career in philosophy&#x2F;academia.  The only condition that changes when one gets tenure is #1, and I believe that&#x27;s the root of it. But I don&#x27;t look at it in terms of freedom, but rather of adversity -- adversity as a BENEFIT, that the tenured faculty (or the miserable lottery winner) abruptly LOSES. Adversity is what gives life meaning, improves us as people, and (paradoxically) creates happiness. You are a knife and adversity is the rock against which you sharpen yourself. Not necessarily because you need a sharp knife, but because a knife is best when it&#x27;s at its most knife-like. Heirs, except when they reject or are excommunicated from the family fortune, usually have no concept of adversity and grow up to be shitty, weak people. They never have to strive and hence never learn what they&#x27;re made of. Once you get tenure, that is what you lose.