Comment by Animats
12 hours ago
> 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.