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Burning Man, tech bros' favorite party, is in jeopardy because of Tropical Storm Hilary
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
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I wouldn't call burners overlap with techbros a circle enough to celebrate this. I don't particularly feel any kinship with burners, but I find them mostly harmless and largely climate conscious.
You practically need tech bro money to afford a ticket though don't you? The article says tickets are up to $2750, and while I know they go for less if you get lucky in the lottery or something like that they're still like 800-1000$ just to get in. Who can afford that just as the entry fee, let alone what ever you need to survive the desert for a week?
Burners I know pretty much live to go to burns. Every week they get together to build stuff for the burn. 3k isn't much really if that's what your yearly vacation is and you're a paper pusher.
I have lived in northern Nevada for eight years, the amount of trash left in Black Rock and what they dump around Reno the days after Burning Man is over makes them seem a whole lot less climate conscious. I’ve seen piles of playa dust covered junk just dumped in streets and parking lots and RVs dumping directly into street gutters. Many Renoites will tell you similar stories, unfortunately.
I know it isn’t all of them, but there are plenty of them unfortunately.
Of that I have no doubt, there will always be assholes.