BMJ  2008;336:1134 (17 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.39580.470509.59

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Freedom

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I worry about lots of things these days—my career, my pension, my elderly mother, how my children are doing at school (very well so far . . . but who knows?), road crashes, passive smoking, wrinkles, medical autonomy, insane world politics, global warming.

While I worry a lot, there are some things that I do not need to worry about. I do not need to work for the minimum wage. I do not need to work for less than the minimum wage. I have more than one legal passport and do not need to cross borders stuck in a container. I own my own house in my own name; I do not have to raise my children on a rubbish dump. Even if I hit a financial bad patch I will not need to go on the streets to feed my children (medicine pays more). No one can sell me.

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