misery
by rantywoman
Here we have a person who has been marginally employed for two years and suffers physical pain 24 hours a day—and rather than demanding something better for herself, she demands that other people suffer more!
Vicious and unhinged discourse is widespread on the Internet, but this example is worth noting because the sentiment it expresses is by no means unique. This attitude—a petty and mean-spirited resentment—is depressingly common even among the working class. It sometimes seems to amount to no more than the sentiment that justice consists in everyone else being at least as miserable as you are. At one level, it’s an attitude that reflects diminished expectations, and can be partly blamed on the weakness of the Left and the defeat of its historical project: when you don’t believe any positive social change is possible, there’s little left to fall back on but bitterness and resentment.
This resentment is also at the heart of a lot of hating on “hipsters.” People see others whom they perceive to have lives that are easier, cooler or more fun than theirs, and instead of questioning the society that gave them their lot, they demand conformity and misery out of others. But why? The false (but not without a grain of truth!) intimation that hipsters are all white kids who are subsidized by their rich parents legitimizes this position, but even if it were accurate it wouldn’t make the attitude of contempt any more sensible. For even if creative and enjoyable lives are only accessible to the privileged, that’s not a damning fact about them so much as it is an indictment of a society that has so much wealth and yet only allows a select few to take advantage of it, while others are forced to waste their lives chained to their useless jobs and bloated mortgages.
– See more at: http://jacobinmag.com/2011/01/hipsters-food-stamps-and-the-politics-of-resentment/#sthash.xZKONCG7.dpuf
thebitterbabe 
But wait a second. Isn’t the Occupy movement made up of mostly hipster types (educated, middle class whites mostly) and don’t they constantly revile those who are successful and have more?
I work with the working class. I haven’t met one that has the frame of mind of hipster occupy types.
I dunno, I think the hatred of hipsters isn’t necessarily all about their wealth. I know nice people who profess to be hipsters, and being creative is admirable. But I think hipsters are often disliked because they try to pass themselves off as the premier non-conformists while imposing their own sort of conformity. Also often they’re disdainful. Lastly, I think hipsterdom is inextricably associated with race, and so that isn’t something that the government can really provide. I realize there are minority hipsters, but it’s still a movement that kind of prides itself on whiteness for whiteness sake, is exclusionary, etc. Anyway, good blog.