Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1877524)

By no coincidence it was in the early 1980s that the term "yuppie" was coined. That word is not much used now, because the phenomenon it describes is so taken for granted, but at the time it was a label for something novel. Yuppies were young professionals who made lots of money. To someone in their twenties today, this wouldn't seem worth naming. Why wouldn't young professionals make lots of money? But until the 1980s being underpaid early in your career was part of what it meant to be a professional. Young professionals were paying their dues, working their way up the ladder. The rewards would come later. What was novel about yuppies was that they wanted market price for the work they were doing now.[5]

Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1877528)

So yuppies are so common that they're indistinguishable from anyone else. Yep, yuppies are dead.

Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1877531)

Point is, nobody calls them yuppies anymore.

Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1877531)

Point is, nobody calls them yuppies anymore.

Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1877533)

I do. My friends do. My parents do. My neighbours do. Many members here have. My dog does. Learn to America, we do Irish better too.

Originally Posted by djchameleon (Post 1877540)

Seems like Cali folk still uses it. Whatever Dude uses it all the time too. I first heard it from him and now Frown is saying it too. I don't hear it on the east coast.

Originally Posted by djchameleon (Post 1877540)

Seems like Cali folk still uses it. Whatever Dude uses it all the time too. I first heard it from him and now Frown is saying it too. I don't hear it on the east coast.