One can't draw a breath if he's starving to death so economic freedom precedes political freedom in the sequence of freedoms developed during the course of history. Which is why until only recently it was called political economy instead of separately politics or economics.
Political freedom is no more "awarded" by the "authorities" than is economic freedom "awarded" by the authorities. We the people create and earn each, respectively, always have, always will. This is concomitantly true of social attitudes and values.
Politics and government are about the distribution of power in the society and who gets to decide on the distribution. Economics is about the wise use of resources, almost always meaning limited resources, and who gets to determine what is wise use. Social attitudes follow to eventually become a central component of the dynamic.
In Western civilization, the authorities have had increasingly less to say concerning political economy since King John had to sign the Magna Carta. In social terms, society's values began to break radically from the long dark past with the advent of post-industrial society in the late 1960s into the mid 1970s.
In the Age of Information, social change is occuring radically and rapidly, never to be reversed.
So the concept of an "award" is not in this vocabulary in any real terms or sense. Everyone is entitled to a living wage regardless of the nature of his/her employment or station in life. The Harvard MBA by the nature of it gets more, much more. And the more religion and other social reactionary institutions and forces try to interpose themselves, the more and the faster they are discarded.
No problem.
Wow!
It's difficult to know where to start with this.
Your ideas seem to rest on the ideas of award by a higher authority in an organization and an odd mix of definitions.
A right, by definition in the USA, is something that cannot be taken away by government. This becomes confusing as the political parties try to sell things and conflate one meaning with another. There is no unalienable right to vote. It is an award and is not available to all. You need to be a resident and of a minimum age and so forth. This is an award and has been expanded and retracted over our history. Until recently, when laws were abandoned in favor of political expediancy, foreign visitors were not allowed to vote in our elections.
You seem see no difference between political freedom and economic freedom. There is a huge difference. Economic freedom is something that exists completely until the government restricts it. This is what was taken advantage of by the economic empire builders of the late 1800's and attacked by Teddy Roosevelt. That attack has been ongoing ever since. There was a time in the late 1800's that the private corporations had more money, much more, than the federal government. At that time, the government had no real, effective method to strip it away.
Government gets involved in both economics and politics not in the distribution of power or wealth, but in the RE-distribution of power or wealth. Government creates nothing. It only regulates or re-distributes it. When the government is afforded power, that power is what enables that re-distribution to be conducted.
One of the great thinkers said of government that it should fear its citizens. In our country, the citizens fear the government. As a result, we are now living in the first Constitutional Dictatorship. We have become Imperial Rome of the 3rd Century AD.
Late in your post you add the word "entitled" to the words "award" and "right".
The idea that everyone is entitled to a living wage is fantasy. Entitled on what grounds? By whom?
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"en·ti·tled
inˈtīdld,enˈtīdld/
adjective
believing oneself to be inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment.
"his pompous, entitled attitude"
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Tie this thought in with the MBA from Harvard. Intrinsically, any credential means as little as a title of nobility. Nothing.
Any person is worth what someone else will pay him for his worth. If there is a community of 1000 Harvard MBA's and only one ditch digger and every one of those Harvard MBA's needs a ditch dug before noon today, that ditch digger can pretty much write his own ticket.
The same thing happened in the Y2K panic when the IT guys got fat only to starve in 2002 when their talents were so omnipresent and the work so rare that they were suddenly leaving that profession.
It might be good to examine the meaning of the words rights, awards and entitlements.
You seem to think that they are synonyms and they are not.