{"id":90418,"date":"2013-11-10T23:22:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T22:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karendecoster.com\/?p=20925"},"modified":"2013-11-10T23:22:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T22:22:07","slug":"helping-farmers-fund-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/helping-farmers-fund-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping Farmers Fund the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am so pleased to see that crowdfunding platforms such as GoFundMe and Kickstarter\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.practicalecommerce.com\/articles\/2853-13-Crowdfunding-Websites-to-Fund-Your-Business\">are popping up\u00a0<\/a>everywhere. This is a great example of how a voluntary society interacts peacefully and logically, without the need for central planning and assorted mandates from job-securitized bureaucrats. People giving strangers dough because they believe in a vision or product\/service is, in essence, a philanthropic free market unencumbered by legalized gangsters calling themselves civil servants. This is from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/chancebarnett\/2013\/05\/08\/top-10-crowdfunding-sites-for-fundraising\/\">a\u00a0<em>Forbes<\/em>\u00a0article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The\u00a0<a title=\"Crowdfunding Industry Report\" href=\"http:\/\/research.crowdsourcing.org\/2013cf-crowdfunding-industry-report\">Crowdfunding Industry Report<\/a>\u00a0by Massolution put out data showing the overall crowdfunding industry has raised $2.7 billion in 2012, across more than 1 million individual campaigns globally. In 2013 the industry is projected to grow to $5.1 billion.H<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a great example of a small, independent farm in Texas that produces grass-fed beef wherein the proprietors are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/4zm8fc\">looking to crowdfunding to pay for a deep well project<\/a>. Some funders may never see a return in service, but they desire to contribute to the larger, overall vision.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cMekfMyXbnY?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"420\" height=\"315\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cMekfMyXbnY?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am so pleased to see that crowdfunding platforms such as GoFundMe and Kickstarter&nbsp;are popping up&nbsp;everywhere. This is a great example of how a voluntary society interacts peacefully and logically, without the need for central planning and assorted mandates from job-securitized bureaucrats. People giving strangers dough because they believe in a vision or product\/service is, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-90418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}