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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
I don't believe that I, along with the vast majority of others are educated enough to understand what economic (and maybe some social) policies make sense, and therefore a large part of what makes democracy great loses meaning. CMV

Take something like minimum wage, I could want to help the poorer parts of the population, so maybe I vote to raise minimum wage. This could end up making small businesses close, or lay off workers, so maybe I vote to hold or lower the minimum wage. However this does not account for inflation, and it ends up hurting the poor. 

I haven't studied minimum wage past what I've learned in high school and college, and I sure haven't studied privatizing social security, the effects of lowering the discount rate, or any other issue that some political experts can spend years researching, and still come to a conclusion that may differ from another experts. Why am I voting to put this guy in office over that guy? I try to stay aware of what's going on, but I can't give up my life to stay completely informed. 

I'd rather not feel this way, so if someone could help me see another perspective, I'd really appreciate it.

Edit: this is not about minimum wage, or any of the other examples. It's about whether or not my vote carries any significance due to it coming from an uneducated mind.
gpt
As voters our job is not to set policy.  For one that would be impossible given the complexity of the decisions (as you have stated) and for two then you would not have a need for elected leaders. What we do is hold the government accountable and give signals to our leaders regarding the direction that we want to go. These signals will then be (hopefully) taken into account.

Think about how the democrats lost the house shortly after passing health care reform. That was by no means a coherent, peer edited critique of the health care bill, but it showed that many parts of the country felt we were moving too far left too fast.  This in turn had an effect on how the supreme court and chief justice rogers in particular finally arrived at the decisions they did, to only partially uphold the law.

So we collectively do have an impact regarding overall direction of the country (or in a healthy democracy the electorate does), even if we don't understand the nuances of all the policy that a government has to set.