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This article may be long and a bit dry sorry about that but I can promise you one thing: by the end of it, the causal inefficacy objection will be totally debunked. While causal inefficacy sounds plausible at first, it is easy to prove that it’s wrong.


# Part 2: The basic reason that it’s false

Why? But it’s totally sound. I’m going to go and kill an antelope. And every time I plunge my knife into its heart, I shall scream, with blood dripping from my face, “No single person can affect the supply chain!”

-Amos Wollen

0. On average, if a consumer has no special reason to think that their action will not trigger any thresholds, a consumer should expect to have the average marginal impact of consumers.
1. The average marginal impact of consumers consuming one chicken is increasing chicken production by more than one, multiplied by the value of the cumulative elasticity factor.
2. Therefore, on average, if a consumer has no special reason to think that their action will not trigger any thresholds, a consumer who consumes one extra chicken should expect to increase chicken production by more than one, multiplied by the value of the cumulative elasticity factor
3. The cumulative elasticity factor of chicken consumption is around .75
4. Therefore, on average, if a consumer has no special reason to think that their action will not trigger any thresholds, a consumer who consumes one extra chicken should expect to increase chicken production by more than .75 chickens.