Goal: %100 Free Time

time that isn’t owned by someone or something else beyond my control

Depending on how you look at it, no time is ever beyond your control (except arguably something like incarceration).

If you don't want to work one day, you don't have to work. What's that, you have a full-time job? You still don't have to work.

I think the real issue is that, if you have a full-time job, not working if you don't want to can have undesirable consequences. But I think these consequences are often overstated, or rather avoided to a degree that is not in line with their actual effects.

I also choose to keep my commitments and responsibilities low.

I'm not sure what to think about this either. Part of me says, good on you if you can manage it. But then, there is a difference between an external commitment and an internal commitment. You can have "commitments" as an employee or employer or boyfriend or husband, but unless you let these commitments decide your actions, you aren't really committed. I don't know if that makes sense.

Who has more time under his own control: the man who chooses to go to work to develop software every day because he finds it to be an efficient use of his time to acquire money, or the man who struggles to make a living wage off passive income because he's attached to a misdirected notion of "free time"?

In our culture in the US responsibility is typically associated with adulthood. The more of it you have the more "grown up" you are. And you've probably heard phrases like: A boy becomes a man when a man is needed.

And there is a good reason for that. I've come to find that responsibility is essential for self-actualization as well as maturity. There is no success in relationships, in business, or in life without responsibility. By definition if you have no responsibilities, if nobody relies on you, then you don't matter. If you disappeared nothing would change and nobody would notice.

Also responsibility is found to be very psychologically rewarding. This part of the reason why people love having children and doing volunteer work. Being selfless is intrinsically fulfilling.

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Now I share in the sentiment that there isn't much value in being responsible for stupid crap like paying bills or creating TPS reports. But being able to choose your responsibilities (a noble goal) is not the same as avoiding responsibilities (immature and selfish).