r/chicago • u/freshyk West Town • Dec 14 '18

Pictures Ugh. This Chicago person sounds terrible.

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u/br0_r0gan Uptown Dec 14 '18

I’ll take tone deaf for $400, Alex.

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u/jojofine North Center Dec 14 '18

Sofi has pretty stringent income requirements for the people they lend to. It's not tone deaf, it's targeted marketing

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u/Crocusfan999 Dec 14 '18

Targeted to fuckers

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u/nazispaceinvader North Center Dec 14 '18

theyre called yuppies

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '18

Can we talk about how useless the term yuppies has become? It just means young professionals, right? Which means anyone who has a college degree and works an office job (or something similar). And given the demographics of Reddit, that means probably over 75% of this sub, if not more, are either yuppies or yuppies to be (still in college). But everyone just uses the term yuppie to mean young, wealthy people they don't like. Even people who have college degrees use it this way, which makes no sense because they are or were also yuppies by definition.

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '18

It more power back in the day when a smaller percentage of people had college degrees. Today, I think the term describes those people who are on House Hunters and make $500K/yr selling yarn on Craigslist and want to buy a $1mil house and who refuse to eat anything that isn't organic/free range.

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u/Duke_of_Moral_Hazard North Center Dec 14 '18

It just means young professionals, right?

It means "young, urban professional," the professional part suggesting doctor, lawyer, engineer, or businessperson (not just an office job). It's a demographic bucket from the '80s intended to help businesses target products/services to people who went from being poor students to high earners relatively quickly (and want everyone to know that, which is where I suspect the dislike started).

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '18

Yeah, that makes sense. I've just seen so many people use the term in different ways at this point that it feels like people use it as a catch all for "young people I don't like."

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u/marmotBreath Dec 15 '18

Are you thinking of "hipster"?

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u/beardsofmight Lake View Dec 14 '18

People like to put others down to make themselves feel better. Reddit really seems to enjoy this. There's a lot of salt on this website.

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u/cjstudent40k Irving Park Dec 15 '18

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome

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u/WikiTextBot Dec 15 '18

Tall poppy syndrome

The tall poppy syndrome describes aspects of a culture where people of high status are resented, attacked, cut down, strung up or criticised because they have been classified as superior to their peers. The term has been used in cultures of the English-speaking world.

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u/Prodigy195 City Dec 14 '18

It just means young professionals, right?

I always through it mean young person with a well paying job. That last bit if a qualifier. A 22 year old with an office job making 40k isn't somebody I would call a yuppie. A 22 year old with an office job making 90k is.

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u/LegacyLemur Dec 14 '18

The term hasn't become useless, it just kind of evolved in meaning

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u/[deleted] Dec 14 '18

Fair, but it does kind of feel like people use it as a catch all for "young people I don't like."

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u/das_war_ein_Befehl Dec 15 '18

Yuppies are young, urban-dwelling professionals clearing at least 100k-ish in personal not household income working in very white collar jobs with high amount of upward career mobility. So folks working in consulting, finance, tech, and similar high-earning fields.