If you have no control and everything is determined, why not just do the easiest thing in every situation. Don't get a job. Don't go to uni. Don't bother cooking dinner. These things were all going to happen anyway, right? Just let whatever happens happen. But you don't. You try. Because you know you can change the course of your future. you know this. We all do. This reductionist argument about everything being preordained and therefore you've no responsibility for anything that happens because you are just an cog in a machine with no say is nonsense. Its nihilism for dummies.
Rules are not the same as a predetermined sequence of events. A coffee shop has rules. Pay for your drinks. Don't shout at the staff. Piss in the toilet and not on the floor. That doesn't determine which customers visit on any particular day.
First of all, this is a terrible argument because it does nothing to disprove my claim, it just tries to guess how I should live my life based on it.
Secondly, I don't know why you refuse to understand this but I beg you to try: People pick their perceived path of pleasure. My belief that I am predestined to have a certain kind of dinner in no way diminishes the fact that I enjoy dinner, I need dinner, and it will be my (say it with me now) perceived path of pleasure.
The coffee shop analogy doesn't work because the rules only apply to that coffee shop, not the entire world.
And finally my notion that I don't have free will does not make me value myself or anyone else any less. I still find inherent value in the things that I do and other people do because of the potential of each of us to experience pleasure or pain. I will always decide to pick pleasure, even if my perception of which path I should choose is wrong.