Are you powerful?
The idea is that even though you may have limited means to influence the present, even a limited means can significantly influence the future.
The question is that of timescales. Accumulating power decreases the timescale of your influence - you can see vast changes happen presently.
But any power, no matter how insignificant - if fact, even just in presense - has such an influence in sufficien time.
The theory is that their is a point at which the magnitude of change becomes sufficiently large that any two influencers are comparable, and that this point can be made significantly closer “in the window of this lifetime or the next” without instantly requiring large amounts of power.
The butterfly effect
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.animation as animation
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
# ... your animation code here ...
How does this change? Perspective. You should not be discouraged from attempting to solve problems that are “out of your control” because you are powerless - there is reason why it has not been solved by those in power and you are likely to face those same issues if you are in power. Rather, you should focus on action - what can be done now, what can be done in the future and how to plan for those capabilities.
At the same time, you should realise the limits of your capability. If you try and tackle too many things at once, you spread your capability thin and require increase the timescale to resolve. Not all problems that exist need to be resolved. You must decide with ones are meaningful enough to dedicate yourself to.