As someone that deeply cares about tech & freedom, truly feel most techies fail to see that that majority of the world does not see freedom as a priority.
While I do not know the answer, I do believe it's possible to find one.
For most people, freedom means something like, "My partner and I will work our whole entire lives doing things we don't really like, possibly be out of debt by retirement, at which point our kids will be in debt. Then we can travel the world and spend the rest on our healthcare." The fact that they can do that seems good enough for them. They always think if they work a little harder they will get ahead.
For others, freedom means something like, "I will further the betterment of humanity. I will work until my house is paid off and then expand and enjoy the gift of existence."
For the elite, the perspective is, "I've got a six-sigma edge. It enables me to put a in few months of light, clever work a year and not have to kowtow to anybody, all while living in devastating luxury. It requires leveraging all available resources, such as plundering the environment, the Constitution, the well-being of others, but it keeps me on top."
The elites are the ones convincing all the mainstreamers to forward their potential to their own causes. "Spend all your time on facebook. Consume. Compete. Upgrade. Fear." Linux people are caught in the middle, because they tried to make tools to help the mainstreamers, but didn't quite get there yet and the elites got a hold on it.
I believe the real answer is waking people up to the reality of how their desires are being manipulated to trap themselves in debt and desire. Basically, the message of Adbusters. Stop feeding Hollywood. Stop eating out all the time. Slow food. Do things IRL. Eat together. Fix old cars instead of constantly tweaking designs. Stop responding to dopamine rushes.
I went out to lunch with an admin at my company the other day. Her family doesn't have laundry machines in their home, but they're going to Las Vegas for a vacation. Why give away all that time and money to others?
>For most people, freedom means something like, "My partner and I will work our whole entire lives doing things we don't really like, possibly be out of debt by retirement, at which point our kids will be in debt. Then we can travel the world and spend the rest on our healthcare." The fact that they can do that seems good enough for them.
Well it's better than what we had before. 5-15 centuries ago, freedom meant something like, "My family will toil all day long, with no vacation, for our whole entire lives in some feudal lord's fields doing backbreaking work in exchange for getting to live in a crappy shack with dirt floors and have some crappy low-nutrition food and not getting murdered by robbers. Our kids will work for the same lord or his heirs. Travel is just a fantasy."
While I do not know the answer, I do believe it's possible to find one.
Focus on building relationships first, then tech.