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One of the most tiring responses to a comment is 'did you read the article'. Yes, of course I read the article.

I thought of doing a 'point by point' because that seems to be the only way to respond a pile of nonsense like this without getting that particular response.

I choose not to because that would be overlong and it would not add anything.

The only thing this article shows is that if you use your creativity that you can stretch any term to mean anything. The only other party that I'm aware of that plays word and mindgames like this with its audience is scientology.

If you don't want to be a part of society you're free to opt-out, or to organize politically in order to effect change that makes society into what you want it to be.

No slave ever had that option, and no modern day slave has that option.

The author makes it seem as though we are all part of some gigantic mechanism that enslaves us all, and that we collectively would be better off by following his 4 step plan to 'independence', but he fails to notice that his 4 step plan simply leads to a much higher level of dependency but on different entities (aka customers).

Society is built on those dependencies, we enter into them voluntarily and there is absolutely nothing wrong with them.

Bad choices lead to feeling bad, so think before you commit to something, including starting a business.

Fast forward 4 years and we'll be seeing blog posts about 'how I'm going to free myself from being a slave of my customers'.

Slavery has absolutely nothing to do with it, not even in spirit or peripherally. Entanglement is a meaningless term, we already have a word that fits perfectly well: citizenship, which happens to have the opposite meaning of being a slave.