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While I personally believe in so-called super determinism (really just determinism), an obvious implication is that we don't have a choice in whether we believe in anything, or how we react to anything. Therefore, to the extent that you're able to make a choice about how to behave given that knowledge (which is to say, not at all), you'd might as well choose to behave as if you are able to make choices. Then if you're wrong about free will, you don't act erroneously. If you're right, you never had the option to choose how to act on that belief anyway.

I rarely comment on the illusion of free will because doing so often results in individuals spouting the same anti-intellectual drivel and canned responses that fail to highlight the main point. They would likely need to pause and read my comment multiple times to realize they are behaving like uneducated individuals over a belief unsupported by evidence. Additionally, they seldom exhibit such behavior when reflecting on how they decide upon something or consider factors influencing their decisions on a particular subject. Nevertheless, I still believe it is worthwhile to engage in discussions claiming free will when it is brought up in debates concerning societal issues. This pattern has persisted throughout history, where humans have previously held misconceptions about various topics.

Maybe not free will in philosophical terms as we are all programmed in some way or another by our parents, our education, our environment, etc... but we certainly have enough amount of Free Will to change jobs...

Economics doesn't use "free well" to model labor markets, but it does have search costs and monopsonies. You can't wait for the ideal job to appear because you might starve first.

> can't wait for the ideal job to appear because you might starve first.

and therefore, you choosing the current best option available to you is not coersion. Therefore, it's free-will.

starvation is not a problem in developed countries which is the topic we are talking about here...

Asian welfare states are weaker than you think. The main solution if you can't afford much food is to move back in with your parents.

(Also very high rates of young women reporting doing sex work, though I don't know if that's because of poverty.)

> Asian welfare states are weaker than you think

I think I am fairly aware (see profile) and yet most people dont live paycheck to paycheck. the idea that most working class people are just one step away from being thrown in the streets is just a crazy delusion.

Sure, but I assumed we were talking about entry-level anime inbetweeners here, which presumably are young people with the least savings.

Homelessness, medical care, and access to food are absolutely significant issues in developed countries. Particularly the compounding effects - if you miss one rent payment, no one will rent you another location, jobs won't hire you with poor credit, and suddenly you're not able to get out of you situation. Particularly in America where nearly a quarter of people have medical debt: https://www.lendingtree.com/personal/medical-debt-statistics...

If this is true then your comments are literally meaningless, in fact all comments would be.

Yawn, I'm sure you advocate in favour of the nonsense that comes out of religious people that believe in their nonsense that has no evidence as well.

Huh? Perhaps this was intended to reply to a different comment?

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