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I’m not sure Burning Man today is a good example for post-capitalist idealism. Longtime veterans of the event have complained that Burning Man today (and for ye

I’m not sure Burning Man today is a good example for post-capitalist idealism. Longtime veterans of the event have complained that Burning Man today (and for years now) is largely attended and driven by people who spend most of the year acquiring wealth through cutthroat capitalist means, and then only come to the event to blow off steam.

theptip 3y ago
Good point, I should have clarified on time period, my experience was circa early 2010s, and I hear it’s more commercialized now. I didn’t intend to claim that BM is actually solving these problems or going in the right direction, just that in a specific time and place and community, there was a glimpse of something very different. (I understand it’s a lot to do with community size and selection effects.)