CSWOL is batshit crazy when it comes to 99.9% of the stuff he says, but he is spot on when he says that your vote doesn't matter, it never will, and you have little power to change anything.
It's true that a single individual taken as an isolated event makes any difference in an election. With the exception of a precious few, say: Lincoln, Washington, Jonas Salk, Hitler, even Michael Jackson...; the vast majority of people make zero difference in the world at large.
If SF stopped doing his job, stopped paying taxes, stopped posting on forum -- in fact if he just dropped dead this minute -- it would make zero difference in the world.
But that's not how it works. It's people banding together, influencing the behavior of others, even acting just as an individual "adds up."
Why start a business when one customer won't make a whit of difference? Because it's not just one customer.
It's not just one vote.
A litmus test that is often a fair assessment is to ask oneself, "What if everybody did that?" "What if nobody did that?"
Does SF have a better way to choose out leaders?
