Initially, I wanted to put up a piece on who the Child in the Basement really is. I wanted to talk about the problems of trying to frame social ills by telling a story and how it distorts the issue for everyone, Then I became so tired that perhaps I should blog about something much simpler that more people can relate to. So this will be short post. A lot of people speculate about what happens when someone reaches financial independence. Does the person turn good and end up doing a lot of charity work ? Or does the person turn and start bullying other people with their new-found freedom ? Increasingly based on what I've observed, it is none of the above. Financial Freedom takes away all pretense of who a person is. In the past someone may have to get up early and show up at work on time. Once ......