Charon asks, Do people freely choose jobs that eventually lead them to be laid off, or do they freely choose to live in communities
knowing that major businesses eventually will have to move out? Are these individual decisions made freely, according to Charon?
Yes, people are free to do what they want to do in the United States, and if they choose to live in a town in which most of the jobs
disappear when a global corporation closes its local headquarters, that is their free choice, and losing their job is their private
trouble.
No, but we can't really look to social patterns to explain these behaviors, Charon argues, because business is chaotic and there
are no patterns in how businesses behave.
No, because social forces act on the individual in ways that create socially produced human problems, which adversely affect
individuals, even though they did not freely choose to be affected by this problem. Poverty is a good example of a socially
created problem, which most people prefer to blame on individual behavior.
Yes, Americans all enjoy total freedom of thought and action.