Why Do We Vote?

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2017-05-16 16:10

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Check out this excerpt of a cover story published by American Psychological Association back in 2008:-

Voting is often inconvenient, time-consuming and may even seem pointless.

Voting is personally costly. It takes time to register and to learn about the candidates' views. On election day, you may need to leave work, stand in long lines or slog through harsh weather, knowing all the while that the chances your individual vote will make a difference among the thousands, or millions cast, are pretty much zero.

As it says, pretty much bothersome and inconsequential when it comes to national elections. But voting has evolved. Have you ever experienced something like STEEM? Voting here plays a part in resource distribution, and you can even stay at home in your underwear dishing out votes! And mind you, small and large, our votes do matter on this network. They're clear as day on the STEEM blockchain.

Here's what @andrarchy mentioned recently: currency facilitates the coordination of human activity. Meatspace coordination is time-consuming, but imagine what happens when human coordination is in virtual space such as STEEM? The speed of change will never be the same again. In that, I would like to get more of you smashing that VOTE button on the ongoing BTCC polling. Every bit of vote increases STEEM's chances of getting listed