on freedom

Most Australian adults wake around 6 or 7 in the morning. Get to work at 8 or 9. Knock off around 5. Home again, 6-ish. Forty eight weeks a year. For about 45 years.

Most are glad to have the work, but don't really choose it. They may dream, they may study and even train for work they intensely want; but sooner or later, for most, that doesn't pan out. They take what they can and make do.

Most have families to support, and they need their jobs more than their jobs admit to needing them. They're employees. And, as employees, most have little or no say about what they do or how they do it - it's pretty clearly spelled out in the company's job description - even though these issues drastically influence every aspect of their lives.

This seems an odd way to structure a free society. Most people having little or no say over what they do, five days a week for 45 years. Sounds more like a nation of drones than a nation of free people.