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Two things can be true at once: Voting matters, and also billionaires have extremely outsized political influence. You know what part of that outsized political influence tries to do? Make people think voting doesn't matter and also pass laws to make it harder to vote. Why do you think Republicans were in such a rush to make it illegal to give out water bottles to voters in Georgia after they went blue in 2020? You're legitimately demented if you think all that is just a ruse to make you think voting is important.
There are problems with voting in America, and political corruption is rampant, and Congress is literally for sale, but voting is still how you choose which players are in the game. Using systemic flaws as an excuse to do nothing is a psyop tier opinion.
How much voting maters depends on one's social class.
Vote maters for bilionaires and the rest of the elites because it affects how power is distributed amongst them.
It maters for the upper middle class and some of the middle class because one party is more prone to help some investors and their investments more than others so it impacts the little investments of said middle and upper middle class people and their pensions.
For the rest of the middle class it maters for those who are minorities, be it for safety reasons if you're in one of the minorities most targeted for hate by the nuttier party or because middle class minorities can best exploit things like "positive discrimination" for personal upside maximization (sadly that type of thing mainly applies to middle class job opportunities).
Working class people (especially blue collar) and the poor are fucked either way as both parties only give a shit about them one day every four years. This includes minorities since wealth discrimination is by far the biggest vehicle for inflicting the suffering of things like Racism, which usually gets transformed into actual chronic suffering via wealth discrimination (get fewer opportunities due to Racism, remain poor, live in a bad house with bad living conditions in a bad neighbourhood with bad schools were your kids will have fewer opportunities).
This is why billionaires care about how people vote whilst at the same time in the US voting makes no difference for many people.