If that wasn't true, why would your "choose" commercial surveillance, abusive workplaces and other depredations?
In other words, economics is the "look what you made me do" stick that capitalism uses to beat us with. We wouldn't spy on you, rip you off or steal your wages if you didn't *choose* to use the internet, shop with monopolists, or work for a shitty giant company. The technical name for this ideology is "public choice theory":
https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/05/regulatory-capture/
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