[noonespecial]

>It lacks authority to define where it goes or form a need for continuing to stand. Thus it lacks true agency.

This has been an adequate description of me on my way to work on Monday morning at too many times in my life.

I think we might just be disagreeing about how complicated the puppet is.

[poor_schlub]

You have options, that you prefer to avoid, because you choose not to cope with the inevitability of your own mortality, for emotional reasons. It's simply easier to don the mantle of the soulless worker drone.

But you do have options, and the free will to exercise them. You could rob banks, sell drugs, stay in bed, go on a hunger strike, bootleg intellectual property for fun and profit.

You have choices, up to and including suicide.

BigDog can't even commit suicide intentionally.