He will regard the controllers' invitation as a fiction, and he will not rely on it. He will understand more than that. He will understand not only that any law, promise, or invitation, that contradicts sound praxeology is false, but that that it should be false. You cannot cheat an honest man. Honest men do not need to study praxeology.
Many honest men lacking formal education can spot an untrustworthy promise a mile away.
Nevertheless, many people persistently follow economic mirages. Parents want others to pay for their children's education, so, they trust the government's promise to teach their children as they wish, despite the government's clear economic right to control what it funds. Free enterprise teaches using sound economic laws. By seeming to repeal those laws, the welfare state seems to obviate learning them. Here is a classic case.