An individual vote is almost never decisive—with a hundred million voters the chance your vote breaks a tie is like being struck by lightning—so the personal incentive to vote wisely is essentially zero, just as a single Cairo driver's emissions barely affect air quality.

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Bryan Caplan

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with a hundred million people it really is like being struck by lightning most the time

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Bryan Caplan on The Myth of the Rational Voter 6/25/2007EconTalk
Created: 6/15/2026, 9:20:37 AM

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