Comment by intended

That... that is not exactly how things work.

The choices you are presented with, are always a function of market structure, aka the interplay of incentives, regulation, and competition.

You have a market because your taxes pay for many things, ranging from policing, to courts, to power and standards underlying how various systems work.

The choices presented to you are always a trade off vs other options. Having regulation that dictates how plug points and voltage works for example, reduces the choices you have, but the baseline standard means many other things can be built because standardization enables modularity.

The position that there exists some platonic ideal "choice" isn't even useful as an illustrative argument in this context.

Markets that are effective at ensuring better outcomes for the median or average consumer are things that have to be crafted. Figuring out the correct extent of intervention, (whether you champion less regulation or more) is the issue.