Those last two sentences are textbook non-sequitur, and use a depressing collection of rhetorical tricks to make a point that&#x27;s entirely fact-free.<p>Money is a good way to avoid abject poverty, but it doesn&#x27;t give poor people freedom, because poverty for most is a matter of education and socialisation. Basic income can pay your bills and put a roof over your head, but it won&#x27;t create opportunity.<p>Nor will free markets. Left to its own unregulated devices, no form of social organisation is quite so good at destroying economic freedom for most of the population as a laissez-faire zero-regulation regime.<p>Most of the civilised world has affordable health care precisely because it offers financial freedoms that market-based &quot;solutions&quot; reliably try to destroy. The cost of health insurance in the US is literally crippling. It&#x27;s a prime driver of personal bankruptcy, it makes would-be entrepreneurs think more than twice about setting up - and none of this is an issue in countries where public health care is available.<p>Likewise with student loans. Who has more freedom - a student with $100k of debt, or a student with no debt?<p>Who benefits from a generation of students with huge debt burdens? It&#x27;s certainly not the students.<p>The real road to prosperity and economic freedom is a regulated market in a broadly prosperous economy with minimal cost of entry for entrepreneurs. That means easy and cheap access to investment funding, plenty of high quality blue sky government-funded seed R&amp;D, a strong culture of academic research and independence, serious investment in public infrastructure, a broad variety of independent media, free unrationed access to world class educational resources, and seed level support for entrepreneurs and business creators from all social backgrounds.<p>It doesn&#x27;t mean the &quot;freedom&quot; that makes the proverbial 1% extremely rich while everyone else&#x27;s economic and personal freedoms are diminished.