Heck, she isn't even going to get a chance to build a little earthbound business because she's too independent to jump through all the hoops the government requires. Maybe even something that was legal yesterday, but is illegal today, thanks to some regulation nobody ever heard of. I used to dream, as I worked on all those campaigns, that someday I'd win back the right for Edyie to have the risky, but hope-filled future she craved. When I thought about dying, someday, it was with regret that I might not live to see Edyie go to Mars or to accomplish whatever other big thing she wanted to do. But now I don't have any of those regrets, because it isn't going to happen.
Freedom is just common sense.
But some of the things that have happened in the last couple of years make that all different. They didn't just happen . People in government did them to us. In the last couple of years, they finally did what they'd been moving toward for a long time. They passed the laws that just plain make us slaves.