re: Lawyers are causing societal ruin: $100M lawsuit filed against Fyre Festival

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This whole story makes me hate the internet.

On one hand you have rich kids who just do shite for social media.
On the other hand you have some douchebag who wanted to make fun of said rich kids also for social media fame.
Then you have headlines like this and swimming pigs somehow become inserted into the whole half baked manufactured click bait story.

Why lawd

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This article is kind of stupid in that it doesn't blame the organizers for this debacle, which I completely disagree with (slate's gonna slate), but it does make a bigger point about the VIP festival experience.

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The Fyre Festival may go down as the biggest disaster for a large-scale concert since Altamont—or at least since the widespread rioting and sexual assaults of Woodstock ’99. When attendees arrived on the Bahamas’ Great Exuma island this past Thursday, they found not an opulent getaway but something closer to a disaster site. Instead of the luxurious weekend promoted by supermodels and set to feature Blink-182, Pusha T, and others, they found sparse food and water, accommodations that were basically waterlogged relief tents, and a distinct Hunger Games vibe. For the privilege of all of this, some groups of attendees paid anywhere from a grand to $125,000. Before a single note was played, the event was canceled.

It’s easy to dismiss the people tweeting and snapping their Fyre Festival misery as wealthy idiots who got their just desserts (or, specifically, their cheese and dry bread). If you took a little bit of joy in their plight, you’re certainly not alone. But these particular rich kids of Instagram aren’t actually to blame, nor really are rapper Ja Rule and the other organizers of the Fyre Festival nightmare (one of whom is also the founder of a “social club” for moneyed millennials that’s been unenthusiastically described as being like OpenTable, but for $250 a year). Festival culture has been careening toward a debacle like this for a while now—and along the way it’s done wrong by music lovers and musicians alike.

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You needs tickets for burning man? (And I'm not talking about the VIP burning man areas that get ransacked by the burning man poors)