We are as free as and free in exactly the sense that our neuronal processes are free.
Nature smiles at the union of freedom and equality in our utopias.
For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically, as in England and America in the nineteenth century under laissez-faire. To check the growth of inequality, liberty must be sacrificed, as in Russia after 1917. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.