I think there's also something to be said for the fact that the allegedly "recession"-era hipster set is a lot of really fucking expensive shit--which is also probably why rightwing weirdos value it, since I don't think those twits can even conceive of a value to signal other than, well, value--while actual recession (and pre-recession, really) hipster-ism was grody as hell because the people who had money didn't want the people who didn't to know that (because then they would be judged and/or have to buy everyone's drugs).