Hippies and their business model

Fortunately or unfortunately I stayed at a hotel in Nepal, which had, according to the 2003 census, around 37 bars around it within a radius of 1 Km. These bars were frequented by a set of people whom I could not relate with. The only things they were seen doing was getting up, smoking, reading a complicated convoluted philosophical book, sipping some coffee, gang up with 2/3 of the same type, remove slippers, start walking on the roads and understand the 'Asian culture', have some sex somewhere, hit the pub at 6, dope a bit, kiss a bit, headbang a bit, walk on the roads at 2AM with similar types and then start chatting at some place and at times, start singing too. This is usually their routine.

I thought they were what people call hippies. They looked like 'em. Nothing against them. In fact, they are doing what everyone would love to do during their rest time. But I could not figure out how they had 'rest' throughout the day. They definitely did not even look like types who would run some business for 10 months and take a 2 month off. Those type of foreigners were there too and they looked obviously the english types. Pretty sophisticated. These hippies looked very different.

And from what I heard, they are anti business and types.

Can someone explain how they make money to pay off all those expensive lunches and dinners and more importantly, the binges?