I've read Mt. Everest's base camp has the same sort of vibe at times. The Uber rich mixing with the dreamers. Although the fact that the climbers have a good chance of dying does away with most of the hostility since the mountain doesn't care who it is killing and each goes to face the same thing.

Have you read "Into Thin Air" by Krakauer? Where the Australian climber is stuck and knows he's going to die, and is on a satellite phone with his wife back home, she pregnant with twins? Unbelievable, yet true moment. Re Billionaires: There is something about putting the well-to-do in a harsh physical environment, then stripped of the power of money forced to survive.