No problem there. Get the fuck out of society if you aren't willing to do your share.

Your forced labor example falls flat considering that the main reason people are unemployed is that there simply is no work to be done.

Are you stupid or high?

Doing A does not mean doing B just because it sounds similar. You download a movie, so you're stealing, so you will rob a bank tomorrow. Right?

The environmental calamity will be your least concern considering that

a) You have a bunker
b) everyone else doesn't
c) but they know what you got in there

Sure, blame us instead of the rich.

If there was a justice, anti-vaccers would not be protected by herd immunity.

Your right of self-determination ends where it becomes a liability to the rest of society. If you are a selfish enough asshole that you don't give a shit about the rest of society, get the fuck out of it!

Because they're loud, obnoxious, smelly and expensive.

Next question?

Considering that I rarely buy games before they make it into the bargain bin, that's highly unlikely.

Communism produces a more ingenious, crafty workforce that can think outside the box, simply due to necessity because of shortages in materials and spare parts. People who could keep your plastic car running with shoestring and rubber band (provided that's available, if not, substitute) were highly sought after and could actually make a comfortable living for communist conditions.

Again, if delivery times are between 2 and 12 days, I would not complain. I'm not a Prime customer, I get pushed back to the end of the queue and my time comes when there's less stress. So I could hope to get lucky and order on a slow day, and get my stuff in 2 days because they get around to shipping it right away, or I could be unlucky and order during a stressful week when they don't get around to my order until the next week. That, I could understand.

What I cannot understand is how my stuff arrives without fail (and I am dead serious here, this is ALWAYS the case) in 6-8 days from the same warehouse that could deliver in 2-3 days before Prime got here.

Wow, you sure have some rather specific taste. Maybe you should stop buying puzzle games when you're only into racing.

I honestly don't get Kickstarter. Basically, what it is is a venture capitalist venue for dummies. And I mean that in the most pejorative sense possible.

Kickstarter projects are by definition rather high risk ventures. You are investing into something that is being built. But people treat it like they're just buying something that IS already built, albeit with some rather insane delivery times. That this has to lead to disappointment is a given.

There is a pretty good reason "ordinary" VCs want equity when they back you with money. They are carrying the risk together with you. And there is a pretty good chance that the money is gone because the project never materializes. They accept a high risk, so they want a high reward. That's sensible.

What people on Kickstarter do is to accept a high risk for a pittance of return. What do you usually get? You get the product they try to produce. Maybe at a reduced price (read: at cost), maybe in some superspecial edition that ONLY backers get (and everyone who later pays a buck extra).

Sorry, but if you accept that deal, you better have other reasons to back the project (like, say, you really, really want to see this done and you love it SO much that you'll willingly throw away money for the CHANCE to MAYBE see it happen).

Friends don't use friends as canaries.

The last game I remember that actually had a sampler that represented the game at least halfway decently was Tropico 4. That was, what, 5 years ago?