Lessons from Fyre Fest

Published January 25, 2019 12:00am ET



Earlier this month, Hulu and Netflix each released separate documentaries recounting the infamous Fyre Festival and its fraudulent founder, Billy McFarland.

Fyre, for those unfamiliar, was a disastrous 2017 music festival held on the small Bahamian island of Great Exuma. Thanks to an incredible combination of arrogance and incompetence on the part of McFarland and his crew, attendees who had paid hundreds to thousands of dollars for a fantasy-destination music festival experienced neither music nor fantasy and instead found themselves stranded on a barren Caribbean shore without sufficient food and water and forced to sleep in tents.

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