Freedom can be burdensome. That is after all the basis behind totalitarian politics. Left free, most people run amok. They indulge in self-destructive or at least unproductive things. They need minders... the police state, the authorities, the routine of workplace cubicle and punch-clock and boss.
One hopes that as we age-out of employment, whether via FIRE or other cadence, we also mature, becoming self-energized, to the point where not merely our free-time but our free-volition becomes filled personally, without external encumbrance, remonstrance or fiat. Where I think that so many of us go wrong, is that we become financially independent long before we arrive at volitional independence. The former frees us to retire, the latter fetters us self-limiting circles of ennui and anomie.
