Reply To: Kickstarter rising costs, the end to big box games What will the future be ?

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I don’t think Shipping will kill Kickstarter, it might change the way businesses work but I don’t think it’s going to end it as a funding route. Everyone everywhere who has products made abroad is paying shipping costs and in some way passing them on to us.  The only difference with Kickstarter is that you can see how much it costs and the amount is often much higher.

I do, however, hope that the world is taking stock of this and that we start working towards a world where manufacturing is more evenly distributed.  I am not say everyone should just make stuff in their own countries but having everything made in a single country is bad enough.  Having everything made in a rather aggressive and largely uncaring dictatorship is even worse – for many reasons.  When everything is in a single place, the world simply cannot react quickly enough to mitigate any issues that arise in that place.  My car is currently in for repairs and the garage is struggling to get the parts needed to complete the work because everything is made in the far east and essentially supply has dried up.  The car rental industry is struggling to keep up with demand because there simply isn’t the supply of new vehicles due to the same chip shortage.  The used car industry is seeing a boom because people simply cannot get new cars in reasonable time scales.  The ongoing Chinese approach to COVID-19 is still crippling the world’s economy.  And also, more importantly, disrupting my supply of plastic crack