Huge numbers of middle-class people are now able to make a living specializing in something they enjoy, including creating niche products for other middle-class people who have enough money to indulge in buying things like high-end beef jerky.
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there is no great stagnation, in the NYTimes (via cacioppo)
Was just reading this, too. Died at:
Contrary to popular belief, the revival of craft manufacturing isn’t just a fad for Brooklyn hipsters. (Woehrle resists the term. His beard is too short, he says.)
That he resists being called hipster because his beard is too short is grounds enough to call him a hipster - artisanal beef jerky totally aside. Interesting otherwise, too, but that needed to be mentioned.
(via cacioppo)
