Yet the wider world still tends to assign them high status.
I don’t think that’s true. To my eyes hipsters are this generation’s nouveau riche; people who have money and some kind of status, but don’t conform to upper-class tastes. The wealth and status precedes the hipsterism, it doesn’t derive from it.
Well previous generations’ nouveau riche had better taste.
Not from the point of view of the previous generation X-)
Yet the wider world still tends to assign them high status.
I don’t think that’s true. To my eyes hipsters are this generation’s nouveau riche; people who have money and some kind of status, but don’t conform to upper-class tastes. The wealth and status precedes the hipsterism, it doesn’t derive from it.
Well previous generations’ nouveau riche had better taste.
Not from the point of view of the previous generation X-)