Any kind of dependence is a surrender of freedom. One may be smaller and less obvious than the other but dependence of any kind chips away at freedom.
Give up enough freedom and you start giving up pieces and parts of rights. Some of that, we have accepted in order to free up our personal time to do things like earn a living in something we enjoy to do, rather than sweating in the hot summer sun or freezing out butts off.
Water, food, shelter, medical care and protection (fire and police) are the big ones. Roads is another, fuel, transportation, electricity, waste disposal, communications/internet access…each comes with strings attached. Very few of us could obtain those things from absolute scratch.
What I mean by that is to make a vehicle, you would have to mine the ore, smelt it, work and shape it into panels or frames, you would have to have the tools and means to make those tools, the electricity, the means to generate it and the knowledge and means to create the parts to generate said electricity. Fuel, to have access to the things needed to actually run your creation…tires.
Of course, you could do without, which would mean no more getting to Sam's club unless you planned a week or more to do so. In the meantime, who will care for your livestock and crops and protect the homestead? As the cities who have defunded their police departments are finding out, without them, crime escalates.
We are all dependent on someone, somewhere in some capacity. We have given over the freedom of being able to do for ourselves in exchange for freeing up our time to do other things that someone else is dependent on. In doing so, we have as a society accepted an infringement on rights.
This practice has increased exponentially in recent decades. My youngest who has only been out in the real world now for about 2 years came to me a few months ago and with genuine surprise stated that people don't know how to do anything for themselves anymore. She was sheltered living with us, where we did a lot of things for ourselves.
We have all given up rights in whole or in part.
Because the government owns the roads, we get a driver’s license to be free to travel. We register our private vehicles with the state, we carry insurance.
You build a home, you have to get permission from the government to do so. Your septic (and the tank) is regulated as is your water and the pumps to bring it to the surface, even the materials you use to build and how they are put together is regulated by the government. All is taxed.
When you die, the government will most likely take a huge chunk of it, rather than it going to your heirs.
Your right to pursue happiness is limited by government no matter where you live.
We have all given up something in that regard and we each have our line in the sand so to speak.