Do you deserve to get rich funding a Kickstarter project that sells for $2 bi?

In all honesty I'm not surprised that a 'hedgefund' meets 'kickstarter' hasn't started up for projects, where individual contributors get stock as opposed say a tee shirt. As a result of Occulus Rift. If your target fails the amount raised goes to "hedge-starter". In the event you do succeed ownership of non-voting shares are given to donators, so companies using the server can claim to still maintain ethical integrity.

Obviously there would be legal problems that would need to be worked though.

No.

The concept "Deserve" does not apply here. When I buy into a Kick-starter project, I do it to bring a product that I want to exist into reality: for that reason and that reason alone.

If the people doing the work are able to bootstrap that interest into a successful business, then good on them. At best, it is a validation of the original project. At worst, irrelevant. To call it a detraction, or (worse) to try to lay claim to the spoils is merely greed of the basest sort.

"Deserve's got nothing to do with it."

William Munny