Free Allows Life to Move

Free food means food can move toward hungry people instead of waiting for purchasing power. Free travel means people can move toward family, knowledge, land, opportunity, skills and each other. Free homes mean housing can be treated as somewhere human beings live rather than mainly as something to sell.

Free access to civilization’s talents, machinery and skills means useful capability can go where it is needed instead of sitting behind a pay gate.

And free human time may be one of the greatest releases of all.

You have built parks, libraries, sports facilities, cultural spaces and other places for human beings to enjoy, then organized life so heavily around work and school that people become substantially freer precisely on weekends and holidays.

Park use follows the same rhythm. A Los Angeles study found visitation lowest on Monday, increasing throughout the week and peaking on weekends. During weekdays, attendance was lower earlier in the day and peaked around 6 p.m.

Source: Landscape and Urban Planning — Los Angeles park visitation study

So we built infrastructure for living, then consumed much of the public’s usable time with work and school.

And even when people finally have time, another gate can appear: payment. The U.S. National Park Service currently lists 106 park units requiring an entrance pass, with some locations also carrying reservation, transportation or other charges.

Source: U.S. National Park Service — Entrance Fee Prices

What kind of stewardship is that?

You Manufactured Too Much and Called It Progress

Your garbage is polluting the land and sea while your economic systems keep demanding more production, more purchasing and more consumption.

Make more. Advertise more. Sell more. Replace more. Throw away more.

Then celebrate when GDP rises.

You polluted people’s minds with consumption while polluting the Earth with the physical remains of the same business model.

Goods are thrown away while other people still need goods. Machinery sits idle while human needs remain. Facilities sit underused while human beings spend their lives chasing money.

This is bad stewardship.

If something can keep circulating, let it circulate. Repair it. Clean it. Share it. Reuse it. Move it where it is needed.

Free allows abundance to move instead of forcing civilization to keep manufacturing substitutes for things that already exist.

Meanwhile Human Life Became Smaller

Look at our current situation.

Stationary, stagnant lives. Miserable people. Human beings spending huge portions of their lives working for money and then having little time left to actually live.

Men and women are at odds with one another and not wanting to marry. People’s thinking is constantly dragged back toward bills, jobs, prices, markets and money chasing.

You hindered humanity’s thinking.

Instead of asking what human beings could discover, build, learn, experience and become, enormous amounts of thought are consumed by how to get money and how to keep money coming.

Then you tell us free is dangerous.

I present our current situation to your arguments against free.

Human Life Can Become Vast Again

Learning can be vast again.

It can become useful and explanatory again.

Human beings with revived time and free travel can go places, see things, meet capable people and understand the Earth directly.

They can see agriculture instead of only reading about agriculture. They can see machinery working. They can understand ecosystems by standing inside them. They can learn architecture by walking through buildings. They can meet people with different skills, cultures and ways of solving problems.

Education does not have to mean keeping human beings sitting still for most of childhood while the world they are supposedly learning about exists somewhere outside.

Free human time changes what learning can become.

Free travel changes what learning can become.

Free access to civilization’s skills and talents changes what learning can become.