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But why should they take a chance? You're saying that like it's surprising but I don't think it's unethical
If anyone should take a chance, it's the ones with vast resources that are increased by billions every quarter, not the people alreeady struggling to get by.
When you launch a product, there's always a risk that it won't be successful and offloading that risk on people who can't afford it anywhere near as easily as you can while keeping all the profits if it succeeds is as unethical as consumer banks gambling with people's life savings and then being bailed out at the expense of the same people they bankrupted.
They are protected from losses by their existing profitable market share ( in the billions) so it is unethical to use a tool created to help negate risk for those without the safety of an existing profitable market. There is an immense privilege in being the current dominant party in a market, and we live in a world that has put laws in place to protect companies who become the dominant party in a market instead of laws that equalize the market.
If we were all playing this game as kids, what phillips is doing would be seen as totally unfair, so why is it okay now that we are adults?
There is still risk even if you're profitable now? If you don't use mechanism to protect against risk you won't be profitable for long. Nobody is harmed who didn't consent to it by buying a Kickstarter project.