Free will without societal guard rails creates too many burdens, limiting free will. So, absolute free will is non-existent.
Without government, without legislation providing basic needs, free will does not exist. Stability is needed to truly allow for free will (to place a barometer in this ramble, free will is defined, rather elegantly, even after almost 250 years, as the pursuit of happiness). Without stability, choices are not made based on happiness, rather they are made based on survival.
If a person is required to first provide their own stability before they can pursue their supposedly God-given right of the pursuit of happiness, then it is a crapshoot on wether anyone actually achieves free will (in the context of the world today, it is something that must be achieved, it is not given, it is not one of our inalienable rights); and as the generations go bye, the number of those who achieve stability, and are thus granted the right of free will, dwindles, living as we do in a state of raw capitalism (our form of capitalism, perhaps the only outcome of capitalism, being zero sum).
With no governmental regulations on capitalism, with weak or non-existent social welfare programs, we are denied our constitutional right of the pursuit of happiness.
We are denied free will.
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