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Free Money Knows No Social Class…
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Free Money Knows No Social Class…

August 24, 1967 — Abbie Hoffman, Wall Street, and the strange pull of free money

Historical event: 24 August 1967

A handful of one-dollar bills falls onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. At first, people watch. Then someone bends down — and suddenly the dollar is no longer quite the same dollar. Abbie Hoffman wanted to provoke Wall Street. What he exposed was something rather less convenient: the strange moment when value becomes desire, desire becomes competition, and the crowd quietly makes the ridiculous feel perfectly normal.

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