<P> The "generation gap" between the affluent young and their often poverty - scarred parents was a critical component of 1960s culture . In an interview with journalist Gloria Steinem during the 1968 US presidential campaign, soon - to - be First Lady Pat Nixon exposed the generational chasm in worldview between Steinem, 20 years her junior, and herself after Steinem probed Mrs. Nixon as to her youth, role models, and lifestyle . A hardscrabble child of the Great Depression, Pat Nixon told Steinem, "I never had time to think about things like that, who I wanted to be, or who I admired, or to have ideas . I never had time to dream about being anyone else . I had to work . I haven't just sat back and thought of myself or my ideas or what I wanted to do...I've kept working . I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with . I never had it easy . I'm not at all like you...all those people who had it easy ." </P> <P> In economic terms, it has been contended that the counterculture really only amounted to creating new marketing segments for the "hip" crowd . </P> <P> Even before the counterculture movement reached its peak of influence, the concept of the adoption of socially - responsible policies by establishment corporations was discussed by economist and Nobel laureate Milton Friedman (1962): "Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundation of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible . This is a fundamentally subversive doctrine . If businessmen do have a social responsibility other than making maximum profits for stockholders, how are they to know what it is? Can self - selected private individuals decide what the social interest is?" </P> <P> In the UK, commentator Peter Hitchens identified the counterculture as one of the contributing factors to what he saw as the malaise in British politics in 2009 . </P>

Which of the following was the root cause of the counterculture movement