dukeofwhales
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Hell, the whole concept of pay being for work and not living expenses is retarded to begin with. You can't distinguish that unless you flat out say you're working for X dollars an hour, and then you'd need to somehow prove how many hours you're working, which would be insane. If someone gets a pile of money to make a game, what are they supposed to do, only ever buy necessities? Does shampoo count or is that a luxury? How about clothing or a haircut? When they finish the game and have money left over should they just keep programming extra random shit nobody wanted?
Businesses operate with all employees (including stakeholders) being issued a salary (which attracts personal income tax but not company tax) and any money generated on top after costs/bonuses/salaries being considered profits to be reinvested for the future projects (and therefore an additional cost) or taken off the top (and taxed as profit). So of course as part of the Kickstarter you are paying Fargo's salary (whatever that is) which will include some expenses - this is fairly basic stuff so I'm sure people are aware of it. That's different to saying "we're going to spend the extra $80,000 you've given us on a Tesla for Fargo." Though I imagine the extra will inevitably used towards the game anyway when costs inevitably blow out.