You just put your finger on the weakness of my strategy.
That vision isn't shared by many people, because for them, it's the wage that allows the much-cherished week-end freedom illusion.

For the woman-side of it, it's even more true (not that they're more materialistic but more inclined to stability), especially when thinking about children. Nothing beats the wage system when it comes to financial security (except inheritance) and that's the beauty of the system. Enclosing you while making you think you just liberated yourself. Allowing you to become parent because you're financially stable, when parenting is all about transmitting values, morals and convictions. A child doesn't care about money (assuming he isn't dying of hunger), it cares about love, attention and thriving in a knowledge-rich environment.

And our vision of freedom has been so distorted that people can't even enjoy real freedom anymore. Freedom is now the possibility to buy whatever the hell you want, and not living accordingly to what you think your life should be.

If you look at reactions when people get a working contract, they're happy. They just put chains on their feet but they're doing it while laughing.

Disclaimer : I'm French by the way, so that can influence my point of view.
And I'm far from being free as I described it...