I don’t have the first-hand source right now but according to Doing good better [1] a book by William McAskill on the topic of Effective Altruism, there is a st

I don’t have the first-hand source right now but according to Doing good better [1] a book by William McAskill on the topic of Effective Altruism, there is a strong correlation between individual choices and economic outcomes. For example, if you refrain from buying an egg you would normally buy, egg production is reduced by 0.7 eggs or something close to that number. The logic of this being that you as an individual might have a small probability of affecting change but if you do that impact is rather big. So the first person not buying an egg doesn’t change the situation but the 50th person does lead to one pallet less being bought (and so on). If you attribute the effect across individuals you arrive at a reasonably high impact each individual choice has. The same argument goes for voting! [1]: https://www.effectivealtruism.org/doing-good-better/ https://www.effectivealtruism.org/doing-good-better/