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They spoke to Jerry Rubin. I had a look at his Wikipedia page. Emphasis mine.
Jerry Clyde Rubin (July 14, 1938 – November 28, 1994) was an American social activist, anti-war leader, and counterculture icon during the 1960s and early 1970s. Despite being known for holding radical views when he was a political activist, he ceased holding his more extreme views at some point in the 1970s and instead opted for a successful career as a businessman.
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Rubin held a post-election party at his home in New York in January 1973, attended by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, after Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern had lost to Republican incumbent President Richard Nixon at the 1972 presidential election. Soon after, Rubin retired from politics entirely, becoming an entrepreneur and businessman. He was an early investor in Apple Computer, and by the end of the 1970s had become a multimillionaire.
In the 1980s, Rubin was now more known for being a Yuppie capitalist. Despite no longer maintaining the more radical counterculture views he once held and being regarded as a sellout by some of his former 1960s associates, it has been acknowledged that Rubin sought to use his business investments to promote social conscious awareness. He embarked on a debating tour with Abbie Hoffman titled “Yippie versus Yuppie”.
Rubin’s argument in the debates was that activism was hard work and that the abuse of drugs, sex, and private property had made the counterculture “a scary society in itself.” He maintained that:
Wealth creation is the real American revolution. What we need is an infusion of capital into the depressed areas of our country.
— Jerry Rubin
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In 1980 he began a new career on Wall Street as stockbroker with the brokerage firm John Muir & Co. “I know that I can be more effective today wearing a suit and tie and working on Wall Street than I can be dancing outside the walls of power,” he said.
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Near the end of his life, Rubin became interested in the science of life extension and was heavily involved in multi-level marketing of health foods and nutritional supplements.
In 1994 he died shortly after getting hit by a car when he was crossing the street.
maybe all those damned hippies should’ve opted into business success as well
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
