MicroWaveSep 3, 2023

1 death reported at Burning Man while festival attendees remain stuck in the Nevada desert from heavy rains

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1 death reported at Burning Man while festival attendees remain stuck in the Nevada desert from heavy rains - Lemmy.world

As thousands of people remain unable to leave the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert after heavy rains inundated their campsites with ankle-deep mud Saturday, authorities say they are investigating a death at the event. Attendees were told to shelter in place in the Black Rock Desert and conserve food, water and fuel after a rainstorm swamped the area, forcing officials to halt any entering or leaving of the festival. The remote area in northwest Nevada was hit with 2 to 3 months worth of rain – up to 0.8 inches – in just 24 hours between Friday and Saturday mornings. The heavy rainfall fell on dry desert grounds, whipping up thick, clay-like mud that festivalgoers say is too difficult to walk or bike through.

Show threadFlying SquidSep 3, 2023
I hate to sound callous, but I don’t feel much sympathy for a rich person who went out to the desert to pretend to be a hippie and didn’t check the weather forecast.
Show threadFecundpossumSep 3, 2023

I used to run in a party crowd that had a LOT of burning man folks in it. There were a couple of them that had middle class incomes, maybe even leaning upper middle class. Those are usually the ones that had an art car or whatever that they sank some money into, instead of the crap that most upper middle class Americans blow their money on.

But the rest of them? They worked at restaurants, did massage therapy, teachers, etc. normal people with median or lower incomes that would forego other expenses to set aside a little a money for their annual get high in the desert trip.

Yes, there’s a bunch of elitists at the core of the event, but it’s not the majority.

Show threadpandarangSep 3, 2023
This year's BRC census.
Burning Man Has Gotten Richer, Queerer, Slightly Less White

The annual Black Rock City Census data is out for 2022, and it paints a picture of the desert festival getting marginally more diverse than it was a decade ago, and a fair bit less traditionally heterosexual.

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Show threadKbobabobSep 3, 2023
TLDR: The trend of wealthy people is going up while the less wealthy trends down.
Show threadunderiskSep 3, 2023
The other takeaway is that more than half the attendees make more than 100k a year so not exactly a minority.
Show threadCoreidanSep 3, 2023
100k salary is a decent amount of money but it’s far as fuck from being “rich”.
Show threadunderiskSep 3, 2023
If 100k isn’t rich to you then you have lived an exceptionally blessed life.
Show threadMog_fanaticSep 3, 2023
True for one person but this is household income. A married couple both making $50k would fall into this. While that is definitely not poor by any means. I think it is fair to say that it would be a bit of a stretch to call a person in the us today making $50k “rich.”
Show threadunderiskSep 3, 2023
Nobody was talking about household incomes though. It’s not really fair to compare what two or more people make to the salary of a single person.
Show threadMog_fanaticSep 3, 2023
What do you mean? The article that was pulling the data used “household income” as the data set… It is exclusively talking about household income.
Show threadunderisk
Yeah I went back and checked. Wrong about that, but I’d like to reiterate that 100k is simply the lower bound of the range provided. It does not mean that most or even a majority of them were making exactly 100k per household. In fact, 15% are listed as 300k which is more than the amount of people attending making less than 30k. Then you also have to consider that households that do make 100k individually are for more likely to have single-income earners than households only making 50k.
Sep 3, 2023 at 4:46pmWeb