free will is just personal agency, something…most people just don’t really have in our modern society, especially in most parts of the US with their entirely non-existent safety nets.

they’re so depowered and stressed day-to-day just surviving that they’re physiologically incapable of thinking beyond their immediate needs/personal bubble (and that’s not considering these social media algos eating away at everyones brains). free will only comes into play when the base of the hierarchy of needs is taken care of, which in our hyper-capitilist world that entire base comes down to $