There are too many ways to define freedom to generalize the word. A person who might find themselves free of the shackles of financial insecurity might just sink into alternative forms of bondage. pinned down by all the indulgent vices money can buy, led down the stray path by depression, stupidity, inexperience and impulsiveness. Those same people we ask ourselves how someone who seemingly had it all could end up in such dire straits. In that respect, the degree of freedom afforded to a lottery winner depends on the person. Maybe I'm sensationalizing this a bit, like the tragic tale of the riches the rags celebrity, but it's just to put lifes wildly varying paths into perspective. It really depends on the individual, their character and their environment.
I like to think of freedom in its purest and most important sense as both being free from the might and influence of higher powers and freely choosing to think and live the way you want to, within respectable and accountable boundaries of course. Money won't grant you the former (even billionaire illuminati types are subject to the chaos of the conflict, divisiveness and power struggles they create), and money isn't necessarily needed for the latter.
