We don't live in vacuo. It is, therefore, impossible to escape the influences of others. Short of sticking an ICBM up my ass and shooting myself into deep, dark, cold space, others will have some rub upon me. Your central proposition seems unconnected with anything real.
We are all products of our environments in some ways and measures. That does not perforce mean that we are incapable of self-determination within a given context. It is precisely that a man is free that he can choose whatever he pleases within the envelope of human possibility. I could choose to do things that would get me killed or imprisoned. I choose to do otherwise, not because I am incapable, not because I am unaware, but because I understand the consequences of certain acts and decide that those paths are not for me.
To assert that I am a hopeless prisoner, incapable of altering my circumstance and status just because I buy a car and drive it down the road is absurd.
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