"Franklin Roosevelt was right: “True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. Necessitous men are not free men,” and a country besieged by poverty is not a free country.

Compared to a freedom that is contingent on our bank accounts—rich people’s freedom—a freedom that comes from shared responsibility, shared purpose and gain, and shared abundance and commitment strikes me as a different sort of human liberation altogether: deeper, warmer, more lush.

This kind of freedom “makes you happy—and it makes you accountable,” as Robin Wall Kimmerer has put it. ‘All flourishing is mutual'. Why? Because poverty anywhere is a threat to prosperity everywhere."