I hope you taste your food before you purchase it? I hope you don't eat at restaurants with that logic. I hope you don't breathe before you test that oxygen... Understand, your logic is broken. There are escalations to investment and a house includes that. Kickstarter, that includes that. Investment is exactly that mentality. If people choose to make an investment their risk is their own. Some of us believe the investment to be a good choice and you clearly don't agree, but please don't bring broken logic by comparing things that do not correlate.