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Capitalism's dropout who still needed capitalism to sell the tie-dye.

means A person, especially from the 1960s counterculture, who rejected mainstream values in favor of peace, communal living, free love, and anti-materialism — at least in theory.

from Comes from 'hip,' meaning aware or in-the-know, a word whose own roots are murky (possibly from West African languages via Black American slang, though this is debated). 'Hippie' was first used in the early-to-mid 1960s, often slightly disparagingly by older beats, to describe younger, scruffier followers of the scene — the 'hip' kids diluted into a movement, mass-produced right down to the tie-dye.

origin
from hipster, coined by Norman Mailer-era beatniks
peak event
Woodstock, 1969, half a million muddy idealists
irony
communal living funded by very capitalist trust funds
legacy
birthed organic food aisles and Burning Man
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