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HAHAHAHA!!!
The sad thing is there are actual workers. That's how they set up all hte infrastructure. they have poor people come out and work in dangerous conditions in desert hell for a week building everything in exchange for a ticket that entitles them to squat in the desert for a week.
You're joking? I thought the whole point was that you had to participate. I thought they built that stuff together during the festival
Techbros and other bored rich assholes lacking the integrity to maintain their own stated values
I mean I'm not surprised, but when they claim the whole thing is about self-reliance...
In the USA they say they believe in self reliance and individualism. But they don't even rely on themselves to get take out. They hire people to go get it for them.
It's just an arrogant and pretentious rich people drug orgy at this point which exists in the same society where a black kid with a joint in a poor neighborhood gets years of jail time.
Was it ever good? I feel like the concept itself sounds kinda cool, like something some witchy hippies cooked up
Maybe. I wasn't there for the early versions, but the supposed tales of the event speak of some grant idealistic rejection of materialism by burning everything down and "leaving no trace."
Which is why for decades since it's about rich assholes having designer drug orgies with dubiously-consenting company then leaving mountains of trash behind when they leave.
Rich people logic is "I paid for it = I made it"