Geocentrism, Capitalism, Free Will

Copernicus' discovery not only refutes Geocentrism, but calls into question Egocentrism, and the reliability of Egocentric perception. For, it challenges the natural assumption that one is a fixed center of the universe, as well as that ordinary perception e. g. that the sun transits across the sky, can be taken at face-value. Now, while perhaps Spinoza best understands the implications of that unreliability for the perception of one's own 'free will', the otherwise usually acute Hume fails to consider that the passions that are the objects of such perception might themselves have unsensed external causes. Accordingly, Capitalist Economists who uncritically inherit, via Smith, Hume's Empiricism, likewise fallaciously attribute 'freedom' to much of the behavior that they study, even as advertisers who profit from the manipulability of consumers have keener insight.