[lbo-talk] Hipsterville

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sure hipsters look for cheap rents [and mortgages,] like a lot of other
folks. we have a crap housing policy that begets this sort of thing. i don't
really get why folks hate hipsters so much. i mean, you might say they're
interested too much in material nonsense, but then a lot of people are.
should there be hipster bantustans set up?

On 6/28/07, Peter Ward <peterhartward at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I don't know anything about the defining philosophy of "hipsterism"
> (apparently "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" is required reading, inter
> alia)... But where I live, Bushwick, Brooklyn, hipsters are having a
> very concrete impact--driving up rents and driving the poor further
> from the city. After the wave of hipsters come luxury highrise condos.
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