The damage being that people have been conditioned to being unfree in a very fundamental sense.
I'm unfree in a lot of ways. Not all of them damaging. I cant walk into someone's house, use their toothbrush, and grope them.
It sounds like there is some theory of damage stemming from lack of specific freedoms, but it certainly hasn't been articulated.
For them, freedom might entail being able to deny these basic modes of being e.g. based on monetary worth, social standing or even ethnicity (like country clubs in the US).
If that's what you consider freedom, I don't think I'm going to be able to convince you otherwise.
Instead, you evaded it and tried to redirect the topic.
There are lots things that were once possible, but no longer are.
Of course, there is also the question of who "the people" are.
Is there a lexicon guide I should be referencing with definitions to these vague phrases.