It is intentionally naiive to dismiss the concept that your actions, however small, have societal impacts.
Whether you intend them to, or are aware of the extent that they do, is a function of your personal curiosity and ability/data to analyze the causal impacts of your actions on broader outcomes.
I always see a lot of "I'm just a cog trying to make ends meet" responses, to these kinds of challenges. This is a willfully ignorant cop-out. Which is different from embracing some form of existential nihilism.
It might sound trivial but the quote from Socrates applies:
Whether you intend them to, or are aware of the extent that they do, is a function of your personal curiosity and ability/data to analyze the causal impacts of your actions on broader outcomes.
I always see a lot of "I'm just a cog trying to make ends meet" responses, to these kinds of challenges. This is a willfully ignorant cop-out. Which is different from embracing some form of existential nihilism.
It might sound trivial but the quote from Socrates applies:
"The unexamined life is not worth living"