orwell also believed that true freedom was democratic socialism, but whateva https://twitter.com/DaveSharma/status/1275940161172369409

Might come across as a troll, by my point is substantive. Orwell understood freedom included economic freedom. As long as people's economic security depends entirely on pleasing superiors, they will never be in a position to speak truth to power.

There are social democrats who understand this, who, as a first step, would severely restrict grounds of legal dismissal. Just ban the practice of firing someone because of what they said outside a work context. Very easy reform, exists in other places.

More broadly, you want a much cuddlier and less cut throat way of distributing resources in society, so the consequences of unpopularity are less dire.