Generation Bubble

Admirable Pluck: Hipsters Carry the Weight of the World on a Stubbled Brow

Private equity’s resounding triumph echoes in the ears of countless strivers eager to sample la dolce vita, inspiring in them the belief that they can asset-strip their way to prosperity. So keen, in fact, are people on getting into the game commenced during the Reagan years that they’re finding strippable assets in some rather unlikely places — like their own faces.