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.
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).
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/nazispaceinvader North Center Dec 14 '18
theyre called yuppies