Hi！ I'm Chuntao Zhu, an investor in Creation Capital. I have focused on observation and analysis of gameplay for 5 years, and spent the last 4 days playing your game "Mindustry". Actually, I find myself loving this game so much, so I wonder if there may be something I can do for you? Please feel free to contact me. Thanks! By the way, I really wanna learn how to work with "the blueprint"!
While some are, not all of them are. There's a lot of good investors out there that you don't hear about because there's nothing exciting about them (AKA, they're not dirtbags). People need capitol to start businesses and they provide it. I have had family who has had investors work with them to start their businesses. If done right and you're savvy enough to read the contracts you can easily determine which ones are good and which ones are dirt.
Nope, they're all scum. They don't do any *labour* in exchange for the profit they take from their investee. Money only has exchange value because it represents goods and services with real, tangible utility. All of that utility is created with human labour. There is no labour being done when investors "provide" capital; they allow access temporarily and ultimately *gain* capital by taking labour value from the investee. Workers could instead simply ignore the assertions of ownership by investors, and just freely use those previously-hoarded means of production to create goods and services, *without* paying any parasites. The only reason workers don't do this is because of the violent enforcement of property owners' will by the state. Investors are thus autocrats, oppressors, and parasites - every last one of them should be buried.
Yeah, you obviously have had some bad luck. You need to develop a relationship first before taking money. Get to know them and figure out the kind of person(s) they are first. Careful reading and review of the contract with a trusted party is also very important. It's a two way street so if they want to invest in you they also need to prove their own worthiness.
I assume you don't have a 401k, IRA, or invest in stocks?
lol I've never come anywhere close to needing a loan of any kind, let alone capital for a business. I'm a socialist. All investors are fucking parasites that should be encased in concrete. That's the inherent moral and economic nature of investment, or any other way in which capital owners can profit from others' labour without doing any work themselves. 401ks are US-specific, moron. They're also just a roundabout way for the capitalist government to let poor retirees starve while rich ones can live large on stolen wealth.