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In a recent EconTalk episode, the CEO of Burning Man [1] says otherwise. They even try to police bartering, based on tips from the community. [1] http://www.ec
by wjnc 9y ago
In a recent EconTalk episode, the CEO of Burning Man [1] says otherwise. They even try to police bartering, based on tips from the community.
[1] http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2018/01/marian_goodell.html http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2018/01/marian_goodell.html
- mgce 9y agoMore context from your link: "it used to happen more in the early years--certainly in the early 2000s when, frankly, when the dot-com concept was coming to life, one of the things we would see which was a little related to Gifting and a little related to Decommodification is, we would see camps have logos from their start-up in front of their camp." The point is that Burning Man's community is not built around transactional experience, and that value shines strongly throughout the experience.