[antisthenes]

> They were unhappy and stressed out because in the soviet union, they were assigned a job and the government took care of them. Here in the United States, you had to fend for yourself.

What does this have to do with freedom? It's about having basic safety nets for your citizens. "Freedom to fail", which is what you're describing, exists wherever you want it to exist so the country and even society is irrelevant.

> I've been all over the world and don't know anywhere that has as much freedom as the US.

Yes, it's nice to be affluent in the United States.