Comment by Animats
18 hours ago
Right, needs a drone pass for mapping before and after cleaning.
Needing 150 people for weeks to clean up is too labor-intensive. Are they paid?
18 hours ago
Right, needs a drone pass for mapping before and after cleaning.
Needing 150 people for weeks to clean up is too labor-intensive. Are they paid?
You’ve missed the point. This is a cultural commitment not a logistics problem to engineer away.
The person you replied to did kindly try to explain to you, but you seem to have ignored it.
If you don’t understand the culture of Burning Man, that’s fine. But maybe don’t callously reduce 150 peoples’ labor of love to “btw just use this machine”.
> This is a cultural commitment not a logistics problem to engineer away.
Not entirely.[1] Not all the workers are happy campers. There's a high suicide rate and injury rate.
[1] https://www.salon.com/2018/08/24/exclusive-burning-man-a-uto...
You need to set those rates against other seasonal short term work. Very few people on the resto line has a stable situation the rest of the year either. We should ask if this is utilizing or exploiting society’s dregs. And ask if every event, as big as the Olympics, or as small as a street fair, isn’t burning the same heads.