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Aren't millenials just the new yuppies?

Posted - July 23, 2018

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  • 5835
      July 23, 2018 5:47 PM MDT
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  • 13071
    Im not sure they qualify. Yuppies had jobs.
      July 23, 2018 7:49 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

    In their case, they are not aware enough to even know they are imitating something.

      July 23, 2018 8:54 PM MDT
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  • 5614
    Millennials, without a pot to piss in to call their own, are too broke for that. This post was edited by O-uknow at July 24, 2018 6:04 AM MDT
      July 23, 2018 10:10 PM MDT
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  • 17596
    I'm going with no.
      July 24, 2018 1:07 AM MDT
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  • 11005
    Give millenials a chance. Remember that all of us Boomers were once a bunch of hippies with no jobs.
      July 24, 2018 4:24 AM MDT
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  • 6098
    But most of "us Boomers" were not hippies and found jobs pretty soon after their schooling was over.  And even those of us who were hippies (myself included) worked various kinds of jobs though mostly low paying and never for very long.  Whether we took it very seriously or not in those days we all accepted work as a natural part of life. 
      July 24, 2018 4:44 AM MDT
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  • 11005
    I was making the point of not generalizing about any generation.
      July 24, 2018 6:02 AM MDT
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  • 44619
    I had a job.

      July 24, 2018 5:54 AM MDT
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  • 13071
    -shiver-
      July 24, 2018 6:04 AM MDT
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  • 5614
    All they have to do is wait. Time is on their side. Those currently with position and power can't hold on to it forever. This post was edited by O-uknow at July 26, 2018 6:18 AM MDT
      July 25, 2018 10:51 PM MDT
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  • 6098
    Actually yuppies were driven go-getters while millennials somehow have the reputation for not wanting to work but wanting the government  to somehow supply their necessities. Don't know how accurate that is because don't know many.  Certainly my stepdaughters are willing and happy to work and even sort-of-go-getters but not to the extent that I think yuppies were supposed to be.  And I know other millenials who are serious about their work.  Anyway those are sort of pop culture terms aren't they?  And anyway isn't youth wonderful?
      July 24, 2018 4:51 AM MDT
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  • 5835
    All the yuppies I have seen wore two-tone sunglasses, had professionally styled hairdos, and drove vehicles taller than themselves.
      July 24, 2018 12:13 PM MDT
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  • 22891
    probably
      August 5, 2018 5:37 PM MDT
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