Indeed.  Like the freedom to question God's and the King's authority were considered bad.  Freedom not to be religious while the others have to prey and obey the rules of the high priest.

But also to have the freedom to exchange an apple for an orange, without having to give apples to the state and their parasites.

See, where I live, if I were to exchange fully legally an apple for an orange, things happen like this:

You have an orange, I have an apple.  We both have also 1 Euro, and we consider that the market price of an apple, and an orange, is 1 Euro.

I buy your orange, and I pay you one Euro.  On that one Euro, you have to pay 20% of VAT.  So you obtain 0.8 Euro in your business.  To get that 0.8 Euro out of your business, to buy my apple, you have to pay 23% of social security contributions, and 30% of income tax (if you are part of the upper middle class).  That means that you get in the end, 0.43 Euro.

Now, you buy my apple for 1 Euro.  I do the same.  So I end up holding 0.43 Euro.

On our exchange of 1 apple for 1 orange (worth exchanged: 1 Euro against 1 Euro), we paid together 1.14 Euro to the state.  Each time one exchanges an economic value of A, one has to provide the state with 1.14 times A.   Roads are not that expensive.  States are.  Because they are generators of "con jobs".

Being able to exchange an orange for an apple is what I call economic freedom.


And I told you you were wrong.  Because you could have said the same about telephone, television and other initial state-monopolies on economic goods, like roads, houses, space rockets, satellites and so on.