Is self-ownership the same as economic independence or economic security?
No.
They are related but different.
Self-ownership primarily concerns:
control over one's own person and labor.
Economic independence means:
having sufficient economic resources to avoid substantial dependence on another person's resources.
Economic security means:
having sufficient and reasonably stable resources to meet one's needs and withstand economic difficulties.
For example:
A person may have self-ownership but not economic independence.
A formerly enslaved person may legally control his or her own labor but have no land or capital and therefore need to work for someone else.
So:
self-ownership is not economic independence is not the economic security
although they can reinforce one another.
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