From hipster, it looks like. [link]
And Wikipedia says this: [link]
Pulled from Wiki:
exicographer Jesse Sheidlower, the principal American editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, argues that the terms hipster and hippie derive from the word hip, whose origins are unknown.[2] The term hipster was coined by Harry Gibson in 1940.[3] Although the word hippie made isolated appearances during the early 1960s, the first clearly contemporary use of the term appeared in print on September 5, 1965, in the article, "A New Haven for Beatniks", by San Francisco journalist Michael Fallon. In that article, Fallon wrote about the Blue Unicorn coffeehouse, using the term hippie to refer to the new generation of beatniks who had moved from North Beach into the Haight-Ashbury district. New York Times editor and usage writer Theodore M. Bernstein said the paper changed the spelling from hippy to hippie to avoid the ambiguous description of clothing as hippy fashions.
At the time health insurance was originally tied to employers, it made a lot more sense than it does today. Curing diseases at the turn of the century was pretty hit or miss, but if you were injured on an assembly line, it seemed only fair that your employer should pay for the emergency care. It was also much more common to work for one company your whole life, so the idea of being "tied to a job for the health insurance" was like, well, the railroad's the only employer in town anyway, so...
(VAST VAST VAST OVERSIMPLIFICATION. COFFEE LEVELS INSUFFICIENT TO GOOGLE AND CORRECT MISTAKES.)
I was thinking of this kind of thing:
actual legislative proposals that would provide financing for optional consultations with doctors about hospice care and other “end of life” services,
From here: [link]
At the time health insurance was originally tied to employers, it made a lot more sense than it does today. Curing diseases at the turn of the century was pretty hit or miss, but if you were injured on an assembly line, it seemed only fair that your employer should pay for the emergency care. It was also much more common to work for one company your whole life, so the idea of being "tied to a job for the health insurance" was like, well, the railroad's the only employer in town anyway, so...
As I understand it, it was also a response to a labor shortage where employers were trying to stand out from others by adding "perks" like health care. By the time the rest of the [Western] world was looking at public healthcare, the employer based system was pretty entrenched.
After WWII when the soldiers came back, business was booming and there were caps on wages to keep competition for workers fair. However, benefits were not capped so many employers started adding health insurance as incentives to attract workers. That is part of how health insurances got tied to employment.
Socialist! Commie! HIPPIE!
And here I thought that in order work, generally speaking, you need to be healthy. So that work can be done. Strange.
DH asked me yesterday where the word "hippie" originated. Anyone know?
I heard it's an abbreviation for a social class, such as Yuppie. Can't remember of what, though.
And here I thought that in order work, generally speaking, you need to be healthy. So that work can be done. Strange.
You need to work hard enough to deserve to be healthy!
t /Protestant
And then feel guilty about doing anything that isn't work or church!
t /Catholic
You need to work hard enough to deserve to be healthy!
Oh, rats! We should totally return to the 16 hour work day in health-endangered factories with 40 years of life expectancy of chronic pain, then!
And dammit, the whole part of the entitlement of who deserves what basic rights. Don't even get me started on this one. All that I can tell you is that I watch parts of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition", and can't, for the life of me, to say what makes one deserved and what's not. I believe it's called "luck", and from what I observed, it's usually distributed unequally. And with that, the God(s) of luck you pray to aren't divine, at all. They're humans who emphasis inequality of rights. < / Žižek>
Sometimes, I look at the human kind, and go all "c'mon. We've been dealing with this issue since at least the 9th century (at least, as documented in writing). That's the best we can come up with? Really?".
