Mary Harrington on Burning Man is, well, 🔥: “All this gift-economy joy is enabled by participation in the regular cut-throat capitalist one. And enjoying it at all is predicated on having enough surplus resource in your life that you can afford to blow at least a few grand on contributing to a colossal, ephemeral simulacrum of no longer needing money at all…. It is, in other words, very much a Marie Antoinette toy farm.”