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I don't think many (any?) people working at Burning Man think "this is my job" more than "I do this for the love". I can't imagine it pays well enough to justi

• wpietri 10y ago
  The two aren't exclusive. I love writing software, but it still changes things when I'm doing it for money. I do it differently. I make different choices. And am more likely to justify those choices, because my identity becomes to some extent bound up with my job. As an example, I used to work for financial traders. Once got out of that, it was easy to see how I had adopted some of the perspective of the industry, of my colleagues. But I'd never go back, because I can now recognize the moral issues with it.