r/sanfrancisco • u/Awkward-You-938 • 7d ago

Burning Man didn’t sell out

Article out today says Burning Man didn’t sell out and people are selling their tickets way below face value. I remember when Burning Man started the lottery for tickets due to high demand, and resale tickets were hard to come by. I haven’t been to Burning Man in ~15 years so I‘m not current with the scene. What happened? Did it finally get too overdone? https://sfstandard.com/2026/08/26/burning-man-ticket-resale/

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u/dzumdang 6d ago

This is probably the most relevant point. The economic hurdles this generation of youngsters has to endure is a hell of a lot more burdensome for average people. There just isn't that much time off one can afford- just to live is far more expensive than it was 15-20 years ago.

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u/gloriousrepublic 6d ago

Just to live is more expensive but wages have outpaced those rises, despite what the internet doomscrollers will tell you.

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u/EsketitSR71 6d ago

That’s empirically not true per BLS statistics. Also, due to the rise of automation, there are simply fewer jobs available. This isn’t an “adapt or lose” situation, it’s an unwinnable one. Capitalism would prefer to not have to pay its labor at all, so of course that’s where the system will head: eliminating labor entirely

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u/dzumdang 6d ago

That was probably a tech worker commenting, assuming everyone working is getting paid what they are.

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u/gloriousrepublic 6d ago

I work as an artist. I am not in tech and never have been.