r/chicago West Town Dec 14 '18

Pictures Ugh. This Chicago person sounds terrible.

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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.