{"id":1211,"date":"2010-01-16T11:57:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T11:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2010-03-23T10:11:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T10:11:03","slug":"richer-but-less-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/richer-but-less-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Richer, but less free."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomhouse.org\/template.cfm?page=505\">Freedom House released its 2010 survey<\/a>.\u00a0 The principal findings are depressing: less democracy.\u00a0 It&#8217;s mainly in sub-saharan africa, but that doesn&#8217;t make it OK.\u00a0 Maybe the rich world is a main driver.\u00a0 We vote with our wallets every day.\u00a0 While we might enjoy some kind of democracy and freedom at home, we choose cheap food, clothes and other stuff produced far away in centrally controlled countries.\u00a0 We turn a blind eye to Zimbabwe.\u00a0 We are careless about land confiscation in Palestine.\u00a0 We are ignorant of oppression.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomhouse.org\/template.cfm?page=505\">Freedom in the World 2010 Survey Release<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/international\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15270960\">The Economist revie<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/international\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15270960\">w &#8211; Crying for freedom<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom House released its 2010 survey.\u00a0 The principal findings are depressing: less democracy.\u00a0 It&#8217;s mainly in sub-saharan africa, but that doesn&#8217;t make it OK.\u00a0 Maybe the rich world is a main driver.\u00a0 We vote with our wallets every day.\u00a0 While we might enjoy some kind of democracy and freedom at home, we choose cheap food, &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/richer-but-less-free\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Richer, but less free.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,27,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-economy","category-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-jx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}