Kickstarter is the bane of Suzy Orman.  

Yes its true.  Kickstarter isn’t just a cool crowd-sourcing platform to find cool neat little one off products, its an addiction.  Its an addiction that few if anyone will talk about.  Its a brilliant human distraction. Everyone wants to be part of something, the world of entrepreneurship is unfolding all around us, anyone who wants to make can, there are no barriers any more.  Not only can anyone make, but now anyone can fund, we all can collectively toss a buck into a jar and steam roll past snooty capital backers and say, we the humans of this planet, will this product into existence, take that!

I love Kickstarter, its a fun, cheap way, (well sorta cheap) to be apart of something that could be bigger than yourself.  What part of the human soul doesn’t want to be a part of that?  Its the key to our humanity to be a part of something.  Kickstarter enables these dreams, makes them a reality, its pretty damn groovy.

The downside is the human condition, the fact that we don’t understand portion control without education.  We’re bingeing on crowd-sourcing right now.  We’re taking our gas bill money and plowing it into yet another comic, strange lamp, talking sensor thing,bands album, indie movie, you name it.

Students, students with disposable cash and an aptitude to enable, ie, they are more powerful than the average mortal on campus because they are young, talented, skilled and well funded are plowing cash into Kickstarter because its cool.  And that to me makes me think of Suzy Orman.  I love her show when I catch it.  She lectures the planet on how to save money for the future, and todays $$$ we should be saving is going into Kickstarter for that feeling of belonging to something greater.  I know, i have many one off things from Kickstarter campaigns, none of them actually are as useful than the feeling that I was apart of it.  That feeling is getting expensive and Suzy would strangle me in a parking lot if she knew how many projects I’ve backed.

Suzy’s special segment What Do Ya Wanna Buy?!? is a fun segment where she cross examines folks as the dish out their current financial situation and then ask whether or not they should buy X.  In turn Suzy analyzes all of that and hits them over the head with DENIED! or you are approved.  I always like the DENIED ones better though because in the end Suzy is thinking how you can living well many many years away.  Sadly Kickstarter is erasing that future for many unless we can get a hold of it.. love the service, humans suck!  LOL