Hard to say; it has been used before to fund some great things, and a lot of bullshit.
Oculus got $2.5 Million from Kickstarter, and promptly used that money to develop and sell out to Facebook, now Meta, for two BILLION!!! leaving all the initial crowdfunders kind of confused, and pissed off they weren't real shareholders. https://www.adroll.com/blog/unrolling-oculus-from-a-kickstarter-campaign-to-a-billion-dollar-company
But at the same point, it can be occasionally used to really help people who got fucked over by the system, and it can really help them.
As always, Caveat Emptor.
Hard to say; it has been used before to fund some great things, and a lot of bullshit.
Oculus got $2.5 Million from Kickstarter, and promptly used that money to develop and sell out to Facebook, now Meta, for two BILLION!!! leaving all the initial crowdfunders kind of confused, and pissed off they weren't real shareholders. https://www.adroll.com/blog/unrolling-oculus-from-a-kickstarter-campaign-to-a-billion-dollar-company
But at the same point, it can be occasionally used to really help people who got fucked over by the system, and it can really help them.
As always, *Caveat Emptor*.
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