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when they're "investing" in something like Kickstarter they're not actually "investing" in the general sense

I'd say they are only investing in the general sense, but not the specific one. Because, as we've seen with the Kickstarter failures and flake-outs, regardless of the HN-conventional definition of the word, the donors are certainly and legitimately invested.




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