Greg Beato on Crowdfunding Democracy

Traditionally, the wealthiest members of society
have had little trouble leveraging their resources. Those resources
are highly concentrated and thus easy to strategically deploy when
necessary. For the 99 percent, government provided a way to
accomplish this too. Everyone pays taxes, and as a result, we get
streetlights and Yellowstone National Park. But taxation is pretty
crude. Greg Beato posits that crowdfunding, in contrast, privileges
hands-on, voluntary democracy. 

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