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showing up is the prerequisite nobody applauds and everybody secretly resents needing to do
means The act of taking part in something — joining in, contributing, or simply being present and involved rather than sitting it out.
from From Latin participare, "to share in" or "partake of," built from pars ("part") plus capere ("to take") — literally the taking of a part. It traveled through Old French participacion into English by the late Middle Ages, carrying that same plain logic: to participate is to seize your slice of the whole.
- trophy origin
- Participation trophies date back at least to 1920s spelling bees
- voter math
- US midterm turnout often hovers near 40 percent
- democracy fuel
- Athenian democracy used random selection to force citizen involvement
- meeting cost
- Most attendees contribute almost nothing yet block all decisions
- crowd effect
- Bystander apathy grows as more witnesses are present
for instance
world economic forum davos — 2,500+ global leaders attend annually in switzerland since 1971
fifa world cup 2022 — 32 nations played 64 matches in qatar, with 3.5 billion viewers