The article doesn't convince me that money thrown away by individuals on a Kickstarter pipe dream is any worse economically than money wasted by a large corpora

The article doesn't convince me that money thrown away by individuals on a Kickstarter pipe dream is any worse economically than money wasted by a large corporation on a failed product or an unproductive hire. Economic growth happens because the few successes more than make up for the many failures. This will be as true for Kickstarter as it is for the economy in general.