Burning Money? The $2,000,000 Burning Man Experience

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Burning Money? The $2,000,000 Burning Man Experience

Burning Man. If it was mentioned a mere four years ago, majority of people wouldn’t have the faintest clue of what you were talking about. Salem witches? Vietnamese monks? But today mostly everyone knows of the annual hippie pilgrimage to Black Rock, Nevada. Music, art, fire, fancy dress, drugs, magic, boobs… it’s essentially heaven amidst hellish desert heat. However, the true seasoned burners (as they call themselves) spend months designing and creating the perfect installations and sweet scanty outfits, ready to share with everyone at the festival. Well not everyone…

There’s a new bread of burners in town, and these guys do things *cough* a little differently. Where usually one of the 50,000 revellers spend around $300 to get high while doing a contemporary sun salutation dance to the pulse of some tantric trance beats before hitting some ramen – these select few guys spend a little more around the $2 million (or more) mark.

In the spirit of Burning Man, the festival functions on the premise that nothing is bought and sold, what’s mine is yours, essentially making money and materialism obsolete. But lets be honest, when you’re in a state as trans-dimensional as 99% of burners are, who want’s to be constricted by time, space, and clothing?

Photo: Michael Troutman/www.dmtimaging.com

As has been a noticeable growing problem over the past couple years, the Forbes list of elite techie bazillionares have been on a mission to outdo each other in the most ostentatious way possible. What began as RVs and pre-cooked meals, has now become flying down some of the worlds finest chefs to cook banquets on demand (inc. lobster and steak tartare), pre-built desert mansions with beds, wifi, and air-conditioning, sherpas who wait on hand and foot, and of course a school bus of female models airlifted straight off the NYC catwalk.

If you happen to be in the league of Google, Facebook, or Twitter founders, you too can have the exclusive Burning Man experience, that essentially is a gated community where the who’s who of Silicon Valley take drugs in their spiritual journey towards finding that next billion dollar app idea… and don’t worry, you don’t have to mix with any of the usual Burning Man hippy plebbians if you don’t want to, for they’re not allowed anywhere near your money lined fortress.

For obvious reason there has been a massive uproar of disdain from burner traditionalists. A founder of PayPal, Elon Musk responded to the ramen eating, tent dwellers with a slap in the face; “Burning Man is now basically Silicon Valley… if you haven’t been, you just don’t get it.”

Booyashaka, and no fucks were given.

We may not be able to offer you the million dollar experience right now, but you can heat up your day with the Burning Man live feed.

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