Getting new photography gear from Crowdfunding?
So, who wants to give me $4000 for a new camera?
Come on, get a job like the rest of us 
Stanly wrote: What is more shocking is that people are actually giving them $$.
Which just proves to me that stupid people are breeding far too much.
They way I look at it is if you are not selling enough prints, or getting enough jobs to afford new gear, then you do not deserve new equipment. To me this is more proof that we are becoming an entitlement society, that thinks we deserve things, but do not have to work for them. I see links to Go Help Me Be Lazy sites all the time on what is becoming Begslist. It seems that having an actual work ethic is gone.
The thing is, the people who donate are the real culprits here. If nobody donated then this idea would quickly die. As long as people have the money to toss around and fund these crazy scams the idea will thrive.
I think those who have the extra cash feel like they have done a good deed by donating to those less fortunate, but the question is: Are these people less fortunate, or just looking for a free ride?
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