We look at the Long-term freedom scale starting from zero with you being hypothetically dead. With low long term freedom you have very poor health, are in modern slavery or life imprisonment. Next on the freedom ladder, you are mostly healthy, but live in extreme poverty. As we go higher, you earn more, can take better care of yourself and your family and allocate more of your time to search for happiness instead of fighting for survival. Your barriers up to here were mostly Game of Life ones (concerning resources).
As life up the spectrum gets comfortable and resources abundant, you may encounter more Game of Self problems like lack of meaning. As we get to a middle class person, the amount of long-term freedom has significantly increased. As you become wealthy, resources are no longer a problem. You need to be grateful and wise, give to charity and live happily. But this is actually just the beginning of the long-term freedom spectrum. You did what you could for your freedom. But there are billions of people and animals in the world who have less. I take it as a responsibility to fight for their freedom too. Helping others brings joy and meaning to life and is great for mental health.
We can define complete freedom as the ability to significantly improve the long-term freedom of every human or animal. Complete freedom means no more preventable death and suffering on Earth, no wars or violence. We all want it to happen, so it’s not a morality (quality) problem, it’s a lack of freedom (quantity) problem. On the morality scale (the “quality” of your actions) the average person is at least half moral. According to my observations, around 30% of people are actually so highly moral that it becomes an obstacle for their long-term freedom. On the freedom scale (the “quantity” of your actions) the average person has a maximum 0,00001% freedom. Both you and the world need you to scale the long-term freedom as far as you can go.
Building a business is the most common way to scale your freedom. This way you make money, which can be converted into many freedom-improving activities for you and others: Hiring people whom to delegate to, Trading, Reinvesting, Supporting good causes, Hiring people who can bring positive change to the world. It starts and ends with hiring. Nothing is as valuable as the efforts of smart, motivated people.
Before you have anything, you can start with the Love strategy (going for quantity) in Business (Game of Self) – hiring a person you genuinely care for. You just mixed work and love, doubled the Motivation, created long- and short-term urgencies. The Spam strategy (going for quantity) in Business (Game of Life) is the second thing you can do. Spam is simply a direct path to information, attention and money. If you’re brief and direct, people will appreciate you valuing their time. If you’re cute and funny, they will value you trying to brighten up their day. Many will gladly point you to better directions. Your journey to high freedom has begun.
