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What about the freedom to not have a residence and not being locked up for the audacity of not living in a fixed location?

Historically speaking, in a lot of societies a slave had little to no rights. You were another person's property, in the worst case you had as much rights as a table, and everyone saw that as completely normal.

I'll talk a bit about the Romans. The position of a slave varied a whole lot between different cultures, eras, and states, but I picked Rome because that's where I'm best versed in.

So. If you were one of the lucky few, you could have a fairly good position, like a teacher or a secretary, if you were an educated man. In the worst case you could be mining in unspeakably horrid working conditions, and die very early from disease/malnutrition/injury/abuse or whatever.

Still, no matter what work you did, you were completely vulnerable to your master's whims. He could kill you with no consequences. (IIRC later someone, maybe Claudius, made it illegal to kill a slave for no good reason. One can only ask what they considered a good reason.) You could get whipped. In addition to not getting to choose where you worked, you couldn't choose where you lived either. You couldn't get married. You couldn't own property because you were property yourself.

So, even if you now got forced to work X job, you'd still have so many rights. Your boss can't chain you to your table or whatever and beat the living shit out of you if they feel like it. (yet)

You might know this collective human macroorganism or superstructure as The United States of America, United States, The United States, U.S., or USA. Not unlike Satan or Lucifer, the United States of America has many names and has many tricks up its sneaky, sneaky sleeves.

They are the nation which is widely considered the current globally dominant empire, extending their hegemony through most of the americas, europe and some stategic outposts in the caribbean and asia with a complex network of competing allies in the middle east. The have the world's most powerful (and expensive) military forces. their intel services are top tier and they are masters of managing public opinion. They control or exert influence over several "neutral" "peace keeping" organizations such as the united nations, the world bank and several other very official very serious and neutral sock puppets. They are, however, in the imperial stage of late decadence, and have become obsessed with food, sex, fame, and all other kinds of hedonism we're familiar with, leaving the values of the old in the past, now considered lies only suckers or evil men subscribe to.

You may not believe me, but I actually like them. Lived there when I was a kid. If it wasn't them enslaving my country and by extension myself, it would be some other empire (like China or Russia). This is one of the reasons why learning history is important. If you're unconvinced, that's fine. Just think of me as another fediverse nutjob. Downvote me and go on with your life. I have no intention of changing your mind and I wish you well. <3

Overall, the American populace are good people imo. Their ruling class is full of dick heads, yes. Let's take a look at our own ruling classes, though.... Yep. Also dickheads. What a surprise.

My point is, the USA is an empire and empires commit atrocities, yes, but we could have it a lot worse, you know?