Re: Why should I vote?
JV,
It sounds like your main argument against voting is that it in no way adds to your personaly utility. This is the stuff Nash equilibriums are made of. Often in systems any single entity shifting their position only hurts their utility, though if multiple entities switched all of their utilities would rise.
The terrible fact is that often to get to a better place you need to sacrafice your own utility and hope others do, too. Humans don't really do that well. This is the main reason I am not a libertarian, I believe in many cases it takes (will take) strong regulation to move systems away from sub optimal Nash equilibriums.
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