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[–] 66 points 1 year ago

Hunter Thompson wrote "Hell's Angels" in 1967.

There's a passage about the economics of being a biker/hippie/dropout.

In those days, a biker could work six months as a union stevedore and then hit the road for two years. A part time waitress could could support herself and a live-in boy freind

Then Nixon/Reagan came in to save us.

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