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Is the use of Kickstarter by celebrities/ppl with plenty of money acceptable?

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Barmymoo:
You know what's great about Kickstarter? If you don't like the idea, you don't have to get involved! Isn't it great when we all have the freedom to do whatever we like with our money?

I might go out and buy fifteen kilograms of chopped almonds and scatter them across the street.

seinfeldtheme:
well the thread isn't really about the people who would choose to spend the money, it's about the people asking for devoted fans to part with their money unnecessarily, knowing they'll get it, and dressing it up as some kind of charitable act

i guess you could make a case for defending this but it requires a lot of cognitive dissonance

Barmymoo:
I honestly don't quite understand the problem here. Any shop keeper who displays goods and invites people to purchase them (that's the legal situation in the UK at any rate - you're inviting offers to purchase, rather than offering for sale - it might be different elsewhere) is doing precisely the same thing. Have you ever objected to the fact that Walmart or whatever is inviting you to spend your money on their products? I doubt it.

Jeph has several ways of making money and they all involve him offering something he has created and people paying him money for it. The difference between that and Walmart is that he doesn't require payment for most of what he offers.

seinfeldtheme:

--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 12 Aug 2013, 13:39 ---I honestly don't quite understand the problem here. Any shop keeper who displays goods and invites people to purchase them (that's the legal situation in the UK at any rate - you're inviting offers to purchase, rather than offering for sale - it might be different elsewhere) is doing precisely the same thing. Have you ever objected to the fact that Walmart or whatever is inviting you to spend your money on their products? I doubt it.
--- End quote ---

there are some pretty important differences here, not the least of which is that you don't pay Walmart for the ability to produce its own products, which can then be sold for more profit at a total cost of $0 for Walmart (but a cost of X for you). part of the reason you don't do this is because Walmart, like Jeph Jacques, has enough money to do this itself


--- Quote ---Jeph has several ways of making money and they all involve him offering something he has created and people paying him money for it.
--- End quote ---

he hasn't created this thing he's asking money for, he's asking for money so he create it without spending money to do so (and like i said before, if you throw him five bucks, you're not even getting a copy of the thing you funded). he's asking fans to give him money, which then gives him the ability to follow his "other great passion in life". however, when you're in the financial position to follow that passion yourself, but you know that you have a lot of devoted fans of your other project who will just give you the money if you ask for it, it's hard to read that as anything other than taking advantage of those people

ackblom12:
Kickstarter is for anyone and everyone who wishes to crowdsource their project. The amount of money they may or may not have available to themselves at any given time matters not.

Whether or not you are willing to back it or not according to how much the company or individual's net worth is is a completely different matter.

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