Elizabeth Brown on the Rise of the Hipster Capitalist

Popular wisdom about millennials seems to come in
two varieties: They are either an entitled, narcissistic group of
basement-dwellers, gazing at their selfies while the world burns,
or they’re a perfectly upstanding young cohort who got a raw deal
from the recession economy. Millennials make awful employees
because their boomer parents gave them too many soccer trophies; or
maybe they can’t find jobs because those same boomer parents aren’t
exiting the workforce. The one thing everyone can agree on is that
millennials are probably screwed. Elizabeth Brown writes that,
actually, millennials are obliterating divisions between corporate
and bohemian values, between old and new employment models—they’re
not the first to do this, but they are doing it in their own
way.

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