In addition to all the disfunctions that it currently has - there would be my lack of (you fill in the blank) satisfaction, independence, fulfillment, sense of contribution, economic freedom... go ask Freud.

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Perhaps, too, investors have been lulled into a false sense of security by the performance of central banks in recent years, and the independence that has been granted to many of them by governments.

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Albans, where the emphasis was not on independence but on a sense of team.

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At home, in a year that marks the 50th anniversary of the independence of Algeria, as yet untouched by the Arab spring, there will be a complex sense of malaise in the heavily Muslim banlieues, or suburban council estates.

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The independence offered by financial security may foster a sense of entitlement and a lack of concern for others, the authors suggest.

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But they often lack independence, and bring to the office a sense of entitlement not seen since the days when bosses regularly hired their sons-in-law to learn the family business.

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So weak is the Welsh sense of nationhood that Plaid Cymru was careful in this election not to campaign overtly for independence.

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Any sense of true operating independence was badly undermined last year, however, when the government imposed price caps on electricity, even as the utilities grappled with rising coal and oil prices.

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Meanwhile, The Big Issue Foundation, a registered charity, attempts to connect vendors with the vital support and services in housing and health, as well as trying to foster a sense of financial independence and aspiration.

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