Freedom is the power to enter into voluntary agreements with other people who have precisely the same freedom, to achieve objectives of mutual benefit, as determined only by the parties to the agreement. Freedom is the power to make the rules that govern those agreements. Freedom is the power to create and control a system of general governance designed to serve its creators. Freedom is the power to cheat, lie, and steal, and learn the consequences of those actions. Freedom is the power to experiment, to invent, to help others, and learn the consequences of those actions.
Freedom is the ultimate objective of human kind.
Poverty cannot be eliminated by taking wealth from some and giving it to others. The inevitable consequence of such action is the expansion of poverty, by taking not only wealth, but the incentive to produce wealth as well. It must be protected by those who use it to meet their daily needs. Government ownership or control of the environment is the most certain way to insure its degradation through stagnation. People, like virtually every other species on earth, should be free to use that portion of the environment they can control in whatever way they choose.