What is your idea of freedom? For me, freedom means living honestly and truthfully in the way my soul tells me that is right. Freedom is living my life surrounded by people who love me and respect me for who I really am. Freedom means that my time and energy are appreciated and not wasted or misused.
It costs nothing to be a decent human being. Being free means to be decent, yet able to grow personally without constraints. Freedom means to live the life my heart and soul desire without hurting any other living being (except mosquitos, I can't stand them).
Freedom is about finding yourself and liking what you have found. You can't be free if you hate yourself. Loving myself as I trully am gives me freedom.
Money can't assure you freedom. Just opposite, it can make you slave. Money can't buy you happiness, nor can it buy you good health. It can buy you a house but not a home, it can buy you a bed, but not a sleep. It can buy you a clock but not time. It can buy you a book but not knowledge. Money can buy you a position but not respect, clothes but not elegance. Money isn't everything. Many people think they will be free when will have a lot of money or when they retire. Wrong. If you don't feel free now with as much money as you have now, you will never feel free.
Freedom is enjoying in present moment even if that moment is only that is left to you. Free soul has no limits, neither in space nor in time. Hamlet (Shakespeare actually) said: "I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space". That's what freedom really is. It's about us, not about outer conditions.
