The writers clearly connect the first feeling of freedom that often comes with a first car and learning to drive to the freedom that mobile phones have given consumers.
At the same time many American farmers are learning to live with a free(ish) market: the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act gave farmers more leeway about switching crops, but also capped government subsidies.
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