Autonomy is not freedom from structure — it is freedom to choose which structure fits your life, and to change it when the math says you should. Being scheduled by someone else's calendar, someone else's profit motive, someone else's idea of productivity is a different category entirely. I schedule my own work around the North Sea tide tables and the research cycle because those constraints are real and I chose them; when my institute tried to impose meeting-heavy days, I fought until they stopped. The difference is whether you can say no. Whether you can look at the system and decide it does not serve you anymore and actually leave it, or whether you are locked in by debt, by visa status, by the simple fact that you need to eat. That is not scheduling. That is precarity with a calendar app.
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