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Does freedom imply that you have choices avaiable and if those choices become limited are you still free .?

What you can do is go into thousands of dollars of debt getting an education designed only to prepare you to work for others . If you do have the financial resources to start a business you are forced to comply with numerous state and federal regulations and laws .Permitting , licensing , unemployment insurance , property taxes , sales taxes , income taxes , and taxes paid on the raw materials along with Insurance required by state law to operate your business . How anyone manages to be successful is amazing . But given those who do succeed it is in large part due to government contracts .Yes you must work for uncle sam to be profitable . Every major U.S. business has a division that does work for Uncle Sam almost .Unless you make office furniture and even then a line of government office furniture is needed to succeed . We all want to get ahead but it has become increasingly difficult due to the governments control . We are only as free as our choices and we have little choice left

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1. You assume that if there are regulations and rules to what you can and cannot do, you therefore have "lost" freedom. This is absurd. The government exists to protect and while I agree that many regulations are merely red-tape, America is among the best places on earth to start a business. If you think taxes are high in America, or regulations are too thick, go to other parts of the world where starting a business is impossible without multiple bribes being exchanged. You don't know what you're talking about.
2. Seems to me you have answered your own question in the way you want to believe and are sounding-boarding yourself, so you aren't really looking for answers. However, I will say not all businesses are that complicated. They are what you make them to be. And education can be achieved through many means, not all at your own expense. Sometimes the education portion can be achieved through the business you work at for sometimes others help you to achieve what's needed to make their business better.
3. There is no such think as total freedom. Among other things, we are all constrained by the laws of nature. You are free to get or not get an education. You are free to start a business, but there is no guarantee of success. There are & have to be regulations. You are free to become a hermit if you like (& can survive without other people). If 1 person is totally free, it is inevitably at the expense of other peoples freedom. Would you prefer anarchy? I think you would find yourself much less free in such a system. You would be constrained by the behavior of others, particularly others who are more powerfull than you are.