Re:At Burning Man, the Tech Elite One-Up One Another
by crassus2 on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @11:52PM
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It feels in violation of the spirit of the event to have paid help in your camp, but otherwise Burning Man is for everybody.
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Re:At Burning Man, the Tech Elite One-Up One Another
by yid on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @11:59PM
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Radical inclusion includes people with paid help.
Re:At Burning Man, the Tech Elite One-Up One Another
by idlewords on Thursday August 21, 2014 @12:09AM
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Referred to as "Sherpas"!
Re:At Burning Man, the Tech Elite One-Up One Another
by ahlatimer on Thursday August 21, 2014 @12:18AM
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I wonder if they picked that name ironically. Sherpas are probably best known for being porters and guides for Mt. Everest, a mountain that many in the mountaineering community consider to be, now, a playground for the rich.
Re:At Burning Man, the Tech Elite One-Up One Another
by jmduke on Thursday August 21, 2014 @12:30AM
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Because I never get tired of this fun fact: the Sherpa people have a great tradition of building new homes as a community whenever a marriage occurs, as Sherpa families generally are quite large and live together until such marriages occur. This is generally a pretty intense process, since the culture has a huge emphasis on household deities and that kind of thing [^1], so houses (and land in general) is a big deal.
I'm not saying that being a professional mountain climber isn't super impressive, I'm just saying that if there was only one thing we could steal from their culture I wish it was less about making it easier to reach high elevations and more about building things together that last decades.
[^1]: I don't mean to be dismissive, I just don't know that much about their religious beliefs.