most aren't "controlled by pimps" ... is capitalism a "pimp?" he's no iceberg slim, but he's pretty ruthless!
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Then, is absolute freedom an illusion, and is the better path to accept the inevitability of coercion - better named 'necessity' - and base our analysis on how necessity is managed and met? I think so.
Sure, we need to bind people during their lifetimes in a system that restrains their wickedness while meeting material needs. But the people who have more have no impetus to change this short of staving off their own murders -"pity would be no more if we didn't make someone poor"