Everyone should take at least one Journey, as Jesse said. It's evocative, it's gripping, and it's wonderful.

True, but investors have a different agenda. They're primarily financing something to get something back, like you said, in a way that benefits them in the future. Kickstarter doesn't appear, to me, to be an investment platform in the traditional sense; it's simply a platform for people to fund a project that they want to see come to fruition.