Precarity turned millennials away from hipster identity toward careers
Evidence
The antidote to precarity is stability, and in the wake of the Great Recession, no one wanted to be an unambitious, itinerant hipster. There was no millennial respect for bartenders in porkpie hats making craft cocktails. They wanted careers. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 309
Categorization
- XREF: Mechanism bridging the death of bohemian subculture and rise of blended taste — precisely the trajectory mapped by the omnivore monoculture thesis.