I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Collectivism does not exist because all actions are ultimately individual choices regardless of voting.
- In plain terms
- People always act on their own, even when they vote together.
- What can you take from it?
- Understand that group outcomes are just sums of individual choices.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Are your actions ever truly independent?
- Does voting change individual motivation?
Another view
It ignores how social structures limit individual choice.
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