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The condition of being free, the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints.

Freedom is the opportunity to own your own destiny, within the limits of reason and morality. One has the power to make their own priorities and to act upon them accordingly. However, freedom has to be balanced with order. But freedom comes with limitations, Even the societies has limited freedom.. AS an individual if one freedom constricts anothers freedom it has gone too far and there will undoubtedly be consequences, sometimes harsh consequences. Examples of this would be murder and rape, for which persecution would later ensue. Money is anything that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts. The main uses of money are as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, and a store of value. The dominant form of money is currency. Work Exert one self by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity, Being employed

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WORK is one of the most common way to receive income (money) continuous work by a person means a continuous source of income by such person ( i.e working all year round, with necessary vacations). The amount of income a person receives depends of the amount of time the person works for, the employer/company, and the kind of job the person does. E.g. an amount of income a musician/actor receives per annum with largely differs by what a clerical assistance receive per annum. Thus we could say that ones spending power (money) depends on their kind of work, as a musician will have a higher spending power than a clerical assistance. So we could say that money is dependent on work. We could also argue that money is partially dependent on work because not all spending power (money) is received from work. As there are other sources one could obtain money such as through gifts, loans, bursary, grant e.t.c But this other sources might not be constant in the sense that is not every time one is granted to a gift, loan or bursary. (The time may vary, thus not constant). But incase of work one is legally bond to be paid after rendering required services. In this way freedom is also partially dependent on money. As the definition of freedom says above Freedom is the opportunity to own your own destiny, within the limits of reason and morality. Owing our own destiny everyone (even right from childhood) owns to at least live a comfortable life (if not a rich life). Own a house, a car, a flourishing business e.t.c. This all limits the ones spending power, (money).Its therefore restrain freedom in some sense. For example not having your own house, means ones is either a tenant, living with parent, sharing a room/house with some, living in a housing home e.t.c (provided the

person is not homeless). With all this comes retractions of what you are allowed to in the house (e.g some landlord restrict student from refurbishing the house, having a party. Even sharing a room will mean a limitation in your allocated space, restriction in freedom on where to put your belongings, or arrange the room to your own taste. Just as , not having a car means, one relies on public transport, or on someone else that has a car(especially for long distance, which one cant walk to) with this too comes restrictions However If you cannot afford to do something, that does not mean that you lack the freedom to do it, but just that you lack the means and therefore, the ability to do it, that why lack of money can be related to poverty. The last line that lack of money can be related to poverty. I could briefly explain what poverty? Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future, living one day at a time. Poverty is losing a child to illness brought about by unclean water. Poverty is powerlessness, lack of representation and freedom. Poverty has many faces, changing from place to place and across time, and has been described in many ways (for a collection of readings, see Poems and Personal Accounts of Poverty). Most often, poverty is a situation people want to escape. So poverty is a call to action -- for the poor and the wealthy alike -- a call to change the world so that many more may have enough to eat, adequate shelter, access to education and health, protection from violence, and a voice in what happens in their communities. To know what helps to reduce poverty, what works and what does not, what changes over time, poverty has to be defined, measured, and studied -- and even experienced. As poverty has many dimensions, it has to be looked at through a variety of indicators -levels of income and consumption, social indicators, and indicators of vulnerability to risks and of socio/political access. Much work has been done using consumption or income-based measures of poverty, but also on non-income dimensions of poverty, most notably in the Human Development Report prepared annually by the United Nations Development program. You could even use a third world nation (like Zimbabwe or a poorer country) to explain how poverty because them to and limited freedom, because they have to rely on the UN or other countries to supplied them their basic necessity in life such as food, shelters and clothes.(especially during a war or natural disasters...etc.........)

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