Playing your cards right will help you achieve financial freedom, although it will require work and thought on your part. You must dedicate time & effort in order to have more choice in how you can spend your time & effort. An investment that will certainly pay dividends!

When financially free (of the shackles of employment), the next step is to achieve spiritual freedom, which will be aided by the surplus time (=money) you now have. It is also possible to pursue this kind of freedom while being financially forced to live your life a certain way, since even the most free, powerful people can end up imprisoned in their castles in the clouds they've sought after for so long. It would be terrible to be free in terms of material transactions with the rest of the society, but still enslaved by the same thought-patterns that subjugate the many, elevate the few and enthrall them all.