What I'll say is you'll definitely see an influx of more superficial/wealthy people coming for the last 3 days. Rich shallow people who don't care about the Burning Man spirit and just want to come for the final party, they don't bother to come for the whole week, they just rent an expensive RV for the last few days.

If you do go, go for the whole week, and you'll get to experience the real burning man in the first few days.

And there are also honestly very few countries that 1/ would let this happen without intervening, 2/ even have such a wide open space to make this happen for 70k people with just desert everywhere in all directions.

It's made my Claude work 2x easier in the last week. So many times it'd build something then I'd find a bug. Now it finds the bugs on its own and reiterates until it's sure everything works perfectly. It's so simple but it brings it to the next level in terms of autonomy.

Prompt:

"Add this to your MEMORY.md file (or adapt the following to match our project best):

## Critical Rules

### Always test before delivering

- NEVER tell the user something works without verifying it yourself first

- After every code change: rebuild, restart server, then test the actual page/API response

- After rebuilding Next.js: ALWAYS restart the server — stale JS chunks from old builds cause client-side errors

- Test through the public URL, not just localhost

- Check both server-side rendering (curl the HTML) AND client-side (verify JS chunks load)

- *USE PLAYWRIGHT FOR UI TESTING* — don't just curl pages. Use Playwright with headless Chrome to actually render pages, click buttons, fill forms, and take screenshots. This is the ONLY way to catch client-side JS errors, broken layouts, and UX issues.

- Screenshots go to `/tmp/playwright-screenshots/` — read them to visually verify the UI

- Do NOT ask the user to test. Find the bugs yourself before delivering."

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No other country in the world requires foreigners to be significantly more qualified than its own population. You can move to France with a regular paying job no problem or just a few thousand euros in savings. Impossible in the US. You have to be extraordinary (they literally call their criteria, "extraordinary abilities") or you have to make top 5% money (so if you work in tech, that would be at least $500k-1M/year in many cases).

The only other way is to get married. This means there is a massive discrepancy between the qualifications of self made immigrants, versus those simply lucky enough to fall in love. It's pretty unfair, but that's how it works. But that's also the reason so many immigrants are so successful in the US, the bar is so high, that it creates a massive motivation to succeed to become eligible for the criteria.

It seems to me economic growth is the proof that money is not a zero-sum game, and that one can create value, that creates jobs, opportunities and a betterment in life across the board. A tide that lifts all boats.

You can validate that by looking at world economies. The countries with no innovation/entrepreneurship aren't better off for having less people building wealth: everybody is just poorer. In contrast, more capitalist wealth-oriented economies tend to create more opportunities.

Fast-forward to today: most people aren’t living under that kind of direct economic violence. In fact, doing what early Christians did — selling everything and giving it away — would often create more suffering. Try paying for healthcare or your kid’s college without savings. In a modern context, investing, and wealth-building can be acts of love and protection — not greed. I don't think it'd make me a better man and father to just subject my entire family to poverty.

So maybe the point isn’t “money = evil,” but “systems that enrich some by grinding down others = evil.” The ethical challenge is still valid — just adapted for a world where your 401(k) isn’t funded by enslaving your neighbor.

It's not that we should interpret the Bible differently and make it say whatever we want; but that like any story, we need to look at the context within which it took place.

Besides, if foreigners are investing solely to speculate - if they did fix the supply constraints, the opportunity for speculation would greatly decrease. It's only an attractive investment because the supply is so finite.