Yaaaaaaawnnn... Kendal... you're an idiot... why anyone would look up to you is beyond me... that you think anyone would is both arrogant and deluded...   Enjoy your egress...

Chris...
With a mic, you don't have to project... that's the whole idea...

Those are the people who bug me... they's who feel the need to holler into their mics...

"The more you crank it up the louder the talkers get"
And then one has to consider the venue... if it's a pub/bar, the musician is secondary at best...   People are first and foremost there to drink alcohol (If you're going to sit there an drink water or tea, get out) and enjoy the company of the other patrons... That, 99.9% of the time, means they are going to talk... To TRY to play 'over' them is a pointless endeavour...
If it's a concert, then the people who are talking need to be told to get out for the sake of everyone involved...

I'm in a lucky situation where my 'local' where I get the lions share of my gigs is a bunch of small rooms... The people who want to talk sit else where, and the people who want to be involved with the music come into the dining room with me (Or whoever is playing that night) and well, it's not a huge room, so it doesn't HAVE to be very loud...