> Also, the dig against "Precious Plastic Camp" as a "hipster commune" is just... I don't even know where to start. From what I could find it's a little thing where kids learn how to recycle plastic, and he makes it sound like they spend their money on some Burning Man, I mean what the hell.
I think the parent refers to Project Kamp, their "sustainable" community in Portugal (they have a YouTube channel), for which "hipster commune" is actually a very kind description.
Why was there no mention of this in the (already-completely untransparent) article? They apparently own a huge piece of land in Portugal - why all the whining about having no space or money? Plant some vegetables on your 10 hectares and sell them,at the very least.
> Plant some vegetables on your 10 hectares and sell them,at the very least.
This is totally unnecessary, it would be absolutely dwarfed by the revenue they get from their Patreon (around $13K a month) and their YouTube revenue with 750K subscriptions bringin in probably multiple tens of thousands a month too.
That makes more sense, but we seem to have a different notion of the term "hipster". Anyway, from what I can see in the YT channel, it's not for me, but at least on first glance I can't see anything that would justify bashing these people. Where does this intense dislike come from? Are they peddling some grift or are deep into some conspiracy theory? I don't see it.
Yeah it's much more "hippie" than "hipster" which is what I guess the parent commenter meant.
I've personally followed their Project Kamp YouTube channel since it started (4 years ago), and I do think they deserve criticism.
If you go look at the comments of the vast majority of videos you can see commenters that are experts in their field giving advice about something done in the video that absolutely needs fixing (from basic PPE to building structure issues), only to be completely ignored by the team.
I do think there is some pathological incompetence here. At some point with the exposure they have and the advice and supoort (including financial) that they receive, there's little left to do other than call them out.
I mean.. teaching kids how to recycle plastic sounds like those documentaries you see on child laborers cooking mercury over a gas stove to do artisanal gold tailing extraction.
Combine with the OP's explanation of how they had a little oopsy and a worker got a passive voice injury but they're such smol beans that they can't figure out worker safety, insurance, etc. so the big mean lawyers are suing them
Even their own self-description makes them sound like exactly like the kind of burning man self-actualization sociopaths you describe
