Anything worth having takes a lot of effort or discipline, and takes a lot of time. You can be financially independent but have a life shortened by neglect of discipline in diet and exercise. You can have a high income but a high debt and no savings. You can have fitness but a lot of debt and no savings regardless of income. You can learn the truth about collectivism so that you can easily see the double standards in morality applied to those who claim to rule you. But to handle that awareness you prefer isolation than listening to boring mindless chants of state worshippers.
I’ve been working out for forty years. Twenty years into it some patrons at the gym noticed my arms. One asked how I got good arms. I told them just years of lifting weights, twenty years. Then they started laughing and explained they want big arms right away.
Building up savings for financial independence is the same way. Some people expect to retire in their twenties. For them, I cannot devise a system. It’s luck they want and I am not interested in gambling. But there are proven ways that over time build up higher gains annualized versus the inflation rate. Also, savings cuts into your spending. Most people cannot handle this because they live frugally for decades. Particularly while staying debt free, most people have no discipline to live way below their means.
And when you become aware of collectivism you also became aware of mass programming. You avoid the media tools and diversions. You feel like Neo in “The Matrix.” Everyone you meet is under the influence of the state religious cult. Even your siblings or parents. And you have to be a part of that Matrix for some time to achieve financial independence.
But you need a plan, based on years of effort and discipline, when to exit the Matrix
There will be a time you know you are not at all dependent on the system. That’s when you can live off your capital and work to destroy the Matrix and deprogram those you love.