I think the most important takeaway from Burning Man's decades-long experiment in temporary community is that it all goes to hell as soon as the billionaires show up
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@michelestrider
Yep. Followed the same trajectory as the gentrification of trendy neighborhoods:
• young artists do cool stuff
• young people doing cool stuff attracts attention
• attention attracts money
• young artists are priced out
• money chases money
• eventually billionaires arrive, ruining whatever's left@australopithecus @michelestrider oh yeah, I watched that happen to Portland over the past 25 years.
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@michelestrider May I quote you on that?
@drwho OK
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I think the most important takeaway from Burning Man's decades-long experiment in temporary community is that it all goes to hell as soon as the billionaires show up
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@TheBreadmonkey It's so true
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I think the most important takeaway from Burning Man's decades-long experiment in temporary community is that it all goes to hell as soon as the billionaires show up
@michelestrider The thing is, you can go to Burning Man and never interact with the billionaires. They might as well not be there (in every sense).
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I think the most important takeaway from Burning Man's decades-long experiment in temporary community is that it all goes to hell as soon as the billionaires show up
I saw them burn Zozobra once, back in the 1980's
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@michelestrider As I read this the live feed cut out, so I guess the Parasites have arrived.
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@michelestrider
Yep. Followed the same trajectory as the gentrification of trendy neighborhoods:
• young artists do cool stuff
• young people doing cool stuff attracts attention
• attention attracts money
• young artists are priced out
• money chases money
• eventually billionaires arrive, ruining whatever's left@australopithecus @michelestrider
I have personally seen this happen twice in Huntsville, Alabama.
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@michelestrider The thing is, you can go to Burning Man and never interact with the billionaires. They might as well not be there (in every sense).
@adamrice @michelestrider perhaps, but the takeaway stays.
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@adamrice @michelestrider perhaps, but the takeaway stays.
@argonaut @michelestrider What I’m saying is, the experiment has not gone to hell. Maybe to heck.
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I think the most important takeaway from Burning Man's decades-long experiment in temporary community is that it all goes to hell as soon as the billionaires show up
@michelestrider i have a feeling, albeit empirical, that it is things going to hell that bring billionaires, like culture-eating moths to the fires of societal failure.
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I think the most important takeaway from Burning Man's decades-long experiment in temporary community is that it all goes to hell as soon as the billionaires show up
@michelestrider Intrinsically true. But I'd track back further still: hell goes active the second we believe that fake kindness deserves our financial support.
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I think the most important takeaway from Burning Man's decades-long experiment in temporary community is that it all goes to hell as soon as the billionaires show up
@michelestrider Pretty much on point
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I think the most important takeaway from Burning Man's decades-long experiment in temporary community is that it all goes to hell as soon as the billionaires show up
@michelestrider Recent HBO doc on this was Incredibly On The Nose about it.
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@TheBreadmonkey @michelestrider
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@TheBreadmonkey @michelestrider totally wanted to post this meme.
This is SO TRUE
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I think the most important takeaway from Burning Man's decades-long experiment in temporary community is that it all goes to hell as soon as the billionaires show up
@michelestrider as soon as it becomes just about making money, it sucks. i don't know why people don't see this. they ruin everything, but people are like, 'this is the best system ever ... it can never be changed.'
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@michelestrider as soon as it becomes just about making money, it sucks. i don't know why people don't see this. they ruin everything, but people are like, 'this is the best system ever ... it can never be changed.'
@arrrg @michelestrider once your event has a $3000 ticket and a 20m USD budget shortfall its really just a desert grift. -
I think the most important takeaway from Burning Man's decades-long experiment in temporary community is that it all goes to hell as soon as the billionaires show up
@michelestrider if they replaced the man with a random billionaire in attendance every year, things would turn around right quick.
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@australopithecus @michelestrider oh yeah, I watched that happen to Portland over the past 25 years.
@nonehitwonder @australopithecus @michelestrider Austin, Texas too. Someone wrote a book about it:
https://www.texasobserver.org/austin-book-gentrification-rainey-street/
