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@richdecibels This is an interesting story about Burning Man, thanks. But social capital is such a dumb idea. A plague on Pierre Bourdieu for inventing a raft of fanciful metaphors, of types of ‘capital’ (social, career, etc). Bad old-fashioned capitalists’ Kapital is too important to muddy the water. Bourdieu should have worked a bit harder, and found some other term to label his interesting analogies. But (structuralist, French?) anthropologists just can’t resist an elegant abstraction!.