When we think of yuppies, we all think of Patrick Bateman, suit and tie wall street banker who enjoys luxurious apartments and restaurants from the 1980s. But is that really still a thing in 2014? Seems like the yuppies of today are techies who dress like hipsters.
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when i think of yuppies....i do not think of patrick bateman. i think of bankers/consultants that make useless power points and excels for corporations and get paid way too much money for the value that they provide because of social conventions. Since when were yuppies hobo murderers?
Today's yuppies are very often techies who dress like hipsters. A fair amount of finance/consulting types also run the hipster facade in their offtime, and it's a little strange. As for Bateman, he wasn't a yuppie LOL
I thought Bateman and his entire social group was supposed to be a satire of yuppies?
Don't knock the hipster getup till you try it. I hear its a huge hit with the high school girls.
Young and upwardly mobile professionals = yuppies. Based on my memories of the 80s, yuppies were resented because they had professional careers, cash and youth, but often questionable taste and social mores.
In Australia, the closest modern equivalent I can think of is cashed up bogans, which aren't all that close to yuppies.
In the US, perhaps helicopter parents, particularly the noveau riche type? Or maybe cocky models and bottles type bankers, the type who Occupy Wall Street protestors like to resent.
Yeah it's a thing. You're just not in on it
Brogrammers
The ones who crush code and natties
The burners (people who go to burning man) and Coacheliers
The startup CEO's nee digital media strategists nee associate product managers nee business analysts nee associate consultants
Wall Street is the suburban 4 br / 2.5 bath / golden retriever job of yesteryear
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