Quitting Isn’t Freedom

Digital nomads aren’t running from work — they’re reinventing it.

Every week, social media feeds us the same sunny illusion: 20-somethings typing from infinity pools, preaching “quit your 9-to-5 and live free.”
Freedom, they say.
But as Ruby Borg wrote in The Sunday Telegraph, that’s not freedom — that’s packaging.

She tried it: left her hybrid office job, moved to Spain, became her own boss.
Flexible hours, decent money,…