[HN Gopher] Burning Man festival fails to sell out for first tim...
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       Burning Man festival fails to sell out for first time in a decade
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2024-08-14 20:55 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | JohnFen wrote:
       | > Burning Man's attendance has surged as wealthy festivalgoers,
       | not all as committed as longtime burners to the festival's
       | principles of "radical self-reliance" and "de-commodification",
       | pack the playa.
       | 
       | Personally, this is what soured me on Burning Man. I felt that
       | the nature of the event changed to something I'm less excited
       | about. It seems like a weird form of gentrification. A sense that
       | it has lost its way.
        
         | iwontberude wrote:
         | Defcon doing the same thing. Will 2025 be the first year
         | (ignoring covid) Defcon doesn't increase their attendance?
        
       | throwup238 wrote:
       | For too long rich glampers and sparkle ponies have flooded the
       | desert.
       | 
       | Now the Playa demands a reckoning.
        
       | fsflover wrote:
       | Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41200734
        
       | sandspar wrote:
       | 287,849th iteration of subculture is cool, normies are attracted
       | to coolness, normies ruin it, cool people leave, normies leave
        
       | washadjeffmad wrote:
       | An inlaw retired in her 40s making a few MM a year from a
       | megacorp and rents a private plane and pimped out vehicle of some
       | kind to go to BRC every year like it's a Disney vacation with
       | acid. Fuh.
       | 
       | More tech relevant, I'd been working on a similar application and
       | was stoked when they deployed OpenBTS. That's more the kind of
       | acorporate, self-reliant spirit that I felt characterized Burning
       | Man.
       | 
       | https://www.networkworld.com/article/749150/opensource-subne...
        
       | dovin wrote:
       | I last went in 2022, and it's still a place with amazing art and
       | weird experiences. Being somewhere that's decommodified from
       | advertising is, I think, something everyone should experience. I
       | just think of it more like a really fun and interesting city that
       | I like to visit sometimes, like New York, that's kinda expensive
       | to get to. There's a bunch of gentrification from Silicon Valley,
       | and the tickets not selling out makes me think that the tech
       | recession is still very much on, but there's more to Burning Man
       | than just tech bros.
        
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