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Lol. It’s funny on multiple levels, especially since you’re friend doesn’t likely WANT to work 9 hours a day on a set schedule. By keeping schedule and routine such as washing clothes or attending work or paying bills on time, one is making a choice to eschew “absolute impulse” to do what is prudent to allow them more freedom of choice in their life. Even if you cast asides work and bills and all the trappings of routine and schedule and became un homed and living by hunting and gathering, you’d likely need some form of planning and scheduling to avoid misery and death. The times that animals and plants are available to harvest, how you will use and ration resources, preparing for season changes, when shelters are available or when stores get rid of their “left overs” and such.
In many ways such a life can be more limiting as it lacks security generally. You generally can’t leave your camp or belongings unattended lest you return to find them stollen or ravaged by animals or…

.. “cleaned up” by some authority. This often means you need to schedule and coordinate with others so you can guard each others things when one of you is away, or that you must monitor your time away and such. It also means generally that you lack the financial or social freedom to decide you want to take a trip to a far away destination or get a massage or play a PC game as free from bills and work and such it can be rather difficult to come up with the money let alone have the resources to do certain things. It is only if you are truly disinterested in basically anything except hiking about or scavenging or such that you could say there is a measure of “true freedom” to most likely lifestyles that have no scheduling at all, but even then- alcohol and drug use tend to be high among these demographics largely because lack of options leads to chronic and intense boredom and these substances offer one relief from boredom and many of the unpleasant sensations that tend to go along…

.. with such a life. So that is humorous, and it is humorous because…. While most things we do in life are a “choice,” in a pragmatic sense you don’t generate have a choice about “working” unless you are somehow able to have your lifestyle supported without work. In that sense, adherence to schedules in the form of work or bills is a choice but only in a technical sense similar but slightly less severe than eating being a choice- one can choose not to eat, humans don’t HAVE TO, and you can not eat and survive- intravenous nutrition for example- but in the practical sense you must eat. So you must work generally, and while you generally have some choice in employment, most people generally have relatively little choice in their schedule. Same with bills, you might be able to choose the due date but generally cannot choose to skip payments or change the date to suit your mood at any time. Thusly, your choice to be on a schedule is at its heart an expression of your freedom, whereas…

.. your friends schedule is actually the one which they are a “slave to.” You created a schedule that works for you to allow you to do the things you want and live the life you want as best as practical, they are on a schedule which was created for them and they cannot unilaterally change without major life changes or consequences. And of course if they are playing blizzard games online with any hint of seriousness and success in their games- they likely aren’t just wandering about the game world on a whim but more likely are following some form of schedule as far as when their playmates are online, when spawns and events occur, peak hours, rewards or quest timers and such to farm or claim perks etc etc. so yeah… do you karlboll. Nothing wrong with having a loose or minimal schedule, but the implication that a schedule makes you a slave is a bit silly, especially when we consider that we are all ultimately “slaves” to something or someone- if not just death.