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Must one be a "self-righteous jerk" to say "I don't even expect to get anything when I back a project!" ?

• jacalata 12y ago
  Only when they also say anything similar to "I don't even understand why people are surprised when projects fail!", as all of them have in my experience. I guess even then they could just be stunningly oblivious, fair enough.
  • totally 12y ago
    "all of them have" ... "in my experience". I posit that you don't have experience with everyone who's lost money on kickstarter and uttered that particular phrase. And not knowing the sample size of your experience, I don't really trust your opinion on people, except that some are oblivious and some are jerks. Some are. People's oblivion does not stun me anymore. I don't expect drivers to stay on the road. People do things that are terrible for their health, and can generally be counted on to make objectively bad decisions, especially my mother. But the thing is, if you get all the human souls in a room, and get them to guess how much a mountain weighs, the mean average is consistently closer than any individual guess. So I guess some people's idiocy is a counterbalance to the wise people. I hope I've filled your heart with hope just a little bit.
• lmm 12y ago
  When you say it in response to someone who's upset about not having got what they expected to get when they backed a project? Yes.