The smart person goes for the scooter. From an individual standpoint you stand to gain the most from the scooter since your vote is just a drop in a bucket. This is the most rational choice.<p>Collectively, everyone acting rationally produces unintended results. It&#x27;s a weird phenomenon logically described here as the tragedy of the commons: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tragedy_of_the_commons" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Tragedy_of_the_commons</a>.  Even if you try to do something counter-intuitive, whatever choice you make as an individual is still inconsequential in terms of voting.<p>For example let&#x27;s say it&#x27;s time to vote. I live in california and I&#x27;m a democrat, the voting is probably gonna go blue anyway regardless of whether or not I vote. So why not choose the scooter?<p>Let&#x27;s say I end up choosing the scooter. Then, when the results come out, I realize not enough democrats voted because they all went for the scooter. Thus the state actually ended up being red.<p>So I decide to take a hypothetical time machine back into time to change my decision. Now I choose to vote Blue instead of get a free scooter. Well guess what? the outcome is still the same; the rest of california still makes the same decision regardless of whether or not I vote. The difference is, in one scenario I have a scooter, in the other scenario I don&#x27;t have a scooter... every other factor in both outcomes remains the same. Whatever choice I make from an individual standpoint the Logical choice is ALWAYS the free scooter.<p>In the end to make a better world there needs to be a sort of collective idiocracy, which is kind of what&#x27;s going on in this thread right now: (You all think you guys are so smart because you didn&#x27;t go for the scooter).<p>How about this: free scooter for anyone who votes democrat! That makes more sense (if you&#x27;re democrat).