Given how little effect you can have, is it rational to vote? | Aeon Ideas

In this, voting is not fundamentally different from many other actions. Failure to participate in a collective endeavour is fundamentally irrational whenever it risks contributing to outcomes contrary to our own basic interests. We rely on cooperation to solve a range of pressing challenges, from global warming and extreme poverty to preventable disease. Few question the rationality of minimising our individual carbon footprints, for example, or individually deciding to boycott companies that rely on child labour. No one person who engages in such behaviour will individually solve the climate crisis or eliminate the exploitation of children. But it is still rational to undertake individual actions that contribute to a collective effort likely to have desirable effects for humanity as a whole.

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Hmmnnn. I don’t think so. There are regimes, I suppose, in which it would make sense to vote, maybe. But in our system of government, I really don’t see it. But go ahead, have fun. What’s the worse that can happen? Seems to work better than some other systems.