By the mid-2010s, youth culture fully embraced capitalism rather than opposing it.

Evidence

By this point, youth culture and capitalism were no longer in opposition. The world may have set up millennials for failure, but the best revenge was their paper. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 327

Categorization

• XREF: Directly marks the endpoint of the flip Marx has been tracking — connects back to the sellout/death-of-sellout arc (chapter earlier in book) and to this book’s core ‘omnivore monoculture’ thesis.