Small clues can
determine how free a country is
We
talk a lot about people being free these days.
Many people have tried to define freedom in different ways ... but I’ll
try to propose a few simple questions to determine is a country is free.
Freedom
is not just about elections and democracy.
Here are a few
questions to consider when determining the freedom of a country:
1. Can you leave your
country at any time and for any reason?
(and can you free emigrate?)
2. When you leave the
country, can you take your money with you?
3. Can you access any
site on the Internet?
4. How many
industries in your country are run by an effective monopoly? The more industries controlled by a
monopoly, the less free the country is.
(When
you look at this metric, a country like