Kickstarter and Permaculture

My pessimism of  our species turns to optimism when I look at things like permaculture, open-source software, and kickstarter.   There is a sector of people who are magical.  They create wealth, happiness  and goodness.  I just clicked on Paul Wheaton’s rocket mass heater kickstarter and see that his original goal was to raise $18,000, but it generated $92,772.  These are people who are paying hard-earned money for him to create educational DVDs, upfront, with no guarantees!