Young professionals are catapulting off the corporate ship that has characterized the working class for a couple hundred centuries into the cold dark waters of entrepreneurship, hoping to find paradise or at least freedom from the course they seem set for.

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It all started when I returned home from college after my freshman year to find my newfound freedom again weighed down by daily parental oversight.

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About 60 surgeries face losing income from dispensing drugs after pharmacists used the Freedom of Information Act to find out how much they were making.

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Borrowing from the Tim Ferriss school of thought, I find money to be merely an enabler of freedom.

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I'm even cautiously optimistic that the current impasse over gun regulation is a bad-equilibrium that few consumers actually want, and that a reconstructed Freedom Group, fighting for sensible change as a fifth column from within the industry, might well find that many people -- even a significant portion of the NRA's members -- would buy from a truly responsible (and high quality) gunmaker if given the chance.

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