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The free will / determinism question(?) is entirely pointless because even if you know the answer, it won't have any effect on you. (I haven't read the relevant sequence and I don't have a strong feeling that it would change my mind, but you're free to give it a shot, or two, or spray the whole clip)
In the abstract it doesn't have an effect. In you look at particular choices and investigate whether those choices are determined by specific outside factors or by free will it matters.
People like to think that marketing has no effect on them, but if you actually go out and measure marketing has a deterministic effect on the choices people make.
People often rationalize decisions they make with explanations about why they choose that have nothing to do with the factors that determined the decision. They think they were capable to make the decision based on the reasons they come up with as if they had the freedom to make a decision that isn't determined by an outside factors.
If you look an issue such as being overweight thinking about free will is interesting. You might naively think that the overweight person could just make a decision to eat less via free will. On the other hand the strong correlation between genetics and being overweight suggests that it doesn't really work that way. The genetics determine the result.