If you stay in a hotel, you don't get to take the hotel room home. And a tent is WAY cheaper.
They probably spend more on alcohol and drugs, and they don't get to take those home either. Call it a rental. If you're spending hundreds of dollars or more already, the cost of a tent is peanuts.
This is really stupid logic though. If they take it home, it still costs the same... they just don't have to buy another one for the next festival. What point are you arguing for?
People see these tents as disposable products much like a paper plate. You could clean off a paper plate and reuse it a few times but no one does that. These tents are often the cheapest ones they could find, like $50-$100 I imagine. Split 2-4 ways means you are going to spend more on a meal at these festivals than you did on the tent so if its destroyed or abandoned it doesn't really matter to them.
It is indeed dumb logic and wasteful but sadly that is how people think. They know the tent is going to be a wreck by the end of it, many of them do not camp out in tents normally and treat their tents like garbage so its inevitable that they get destroyed but like the other people have said, you dont get to take the hotel room home when you are done so if you treat your tent in the same way then it doesnt really matter to them if they leave it.
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u/whatsuperpowers 9h ago
Of course it's cheaper to stay on the grounds, but it's still a loss if you don't take the tent you paid for.