I just got an interesting email. 

I'm pasting it down below, and my answer to Martha's email will follow: 

"Dear Xarah,

I've been reading your emails for some time now and I really don't see all the fuss about "The Escape Plan" or "The Freedom Launchpad". 

To begin with, people need an online biz because they made crappy choices in their lives. 

Take for example my husband and I: 

When we married over 30 years ago, we watched our friends and siblings have big, expensive weddings. 

They moved into big new houses. Then, a few years later into even bigger, more expensive houses in neighborhoods, they couldn't afford. 

Watched them buy big trucks they didn't need. 

They financed everything. 

Built up big credit card debt. 

Refinanced their houses to pay it down. 

Us?

Got married in a roadside chapel. 

Used all our savings we would have spent on a big wedding to buy two new, reliable Honda Civic when we married. 

At first, we lived in a small apartment. 

A few years later, we bought an old, smallish (1500 sq ft) 3 bedroom house in a middle-class neighborhood. 

We've lived in it for 30 years. 

Paid it off when we were in our early 40s. 

We're in our late 50s now. I retired a few years ago. Hubby still works because he enjoys it. 

We have no debt. Haven't for a long time. 

Our friends and family used to make fun of our little house and laugh at our old cars. Who's laughing now? 

That's why I don't see any point in this Freedom Launchpad. If people were careful when they were younger, they wouldn't have to worry now, in their 40s, 50, or 60s. 

- Martha"