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That informs one other axiom:

Much of modern life involves trading freedom of one form for freedom of another.

well there's an exception:give up freedom at present for money, and use the money to buy even more freedom in future

Bringing it back full circle: From Paul Graham - "Wealth is the fundamental thing. Wealth is stuff we want: food, clothes, houses, cars, gadgets, travel to interesting places, and so on. You can have wealth without having money. If you had a magic machine that could on command make you a car or cook you dinner or do your laundry, or do anything else you wanted, you wouldn't need money. Whereas if you were in the middle of Antarctica, where there is nothing to buy, it wouldn't matter how much money you had."