Choices

If a person does not know they have choices, do they really have choices? I don't think they do have options if they are ignorant of them. I'm thinking of people who don't vote because they don't have the education to know how to get registered and make an informed decision, or people who feel stuck in difficult or humiliating jobs, things like that. It's easy to think that they could change their life if they really wanted to, but is that true if they are totally ignorant of that possibility? If their family always told them they were worthless, or that they could only do or affect certain things. Maybe I'm underestimating the human capacity for hope. I am not sure. But this thought just occurred to me while walking at lunch today.