Oliver Tooley's Blog - Posts Tagged "crowdfunding"
Crowdfunding
I recently saw a tweet (shared on Facebook)
It was in response to someone who was trying to crowdfund a campaign to defeat socialism.
The tweet was along the lines of
"If everyone chips in a small amount of their income we can defeat socialism!"
This is rather a clever reversal of the often touted irony of anti capitalists using the products of capitalism to fight their campaigns.
Of course capitalism is not essential for major projects to succeed (Communist Russia put the first man into space) but capital is.
And then it dawned on me that crowdfunding is socialism in action. Making great projects possible for people with hardly any money. (You obviously need a computer and some sort of base to work from)
Well, I'm crowdfunding my next book, and hoping to find ways to get people to back it.
I guess it can't hurt to include a link to my project, although I don't expect anyone will read my first blog post.
It was in response to someone who was trying to crowdfund a campaign to defeat socialism.
The tweet was along the lines of
"If everyone chips in a small amount of their income we can defeat socialism!"
This is rather a clever reversal of the often touted irony of anti capitalists using the products of capitalism to fight their campaigns.
Of course capitalism is not essential for major projects to succeed (Communist Russia put the first man into space) but capital is.
And then it dawned on me that crowdfunding is socialism in action. Making great projects possible for people with hardly any money. (You obviously need a computer and some sort of base to work from)
Well, I'm crowdfunding my next book, and hoping to find ways to get people to back it.
I guess it can't hurt to include a link to my project, although I don't expect anyone will read my first blog post.
