Yuppies

First of all the main purpose of this thread is not to hate on yuppies, but rather the people who uphold yuppieism as a shining ideal. Perhaps they are parents, relatives or friends. Now people are free to live their lives as they please. But how about the assumption that people who have several cars in the garage, a big house, luxury goods and so on are living more meaningful lives because they've achieved success in that particular area?

>>1
Because it's fun.

>>1

It's the cultural attitude that came about from "Young Upward Professionals" during the 1980s and they were culturally assigned the status of success.

Their lives mean more because they don't have to live in the city with all of the niggers, they could go into their Gated Communities and play the role of the concerned citizen about fair and equal treatment of niggers while under this veil of safety from them.

We live in a materialistic society. There's nothing else to achieve success in. So, would you rather be living in the ghetto or the suburbs?

>>4
You betray a lack of imagination. You could achieve success in so much more than amassing possessions--just choose a different goal. Perhaps you like killing people, in which case your goal should be number of deaths and you can join a mercenary outfit. Or maybe it's sexual conquests, in which case you might like to buy a van and drive to places far away from your home for rape. Just pick something (other than Mammon).

>>5
Money, murder, or rape. Let's see, what shall I choose as my goal...

>>4
one could achieve success by contributing to the arts, literature, music.. i have more respect for people who do that than those corporate whores who are only interested in having an impressive bank balance or net worth.

>>6

if you want to achieve those three things... being a yuppie might be just for you!

>>7
That might be true in your fantasy world if you ignore these facts.

1: Modern art comes in the form of realistic skillful sculptures, architecture, photography, imaginations and traditional paintings. Unfortunately they never get any recognition because of a monopoly on modern art by pseudo-intellectual collegetards who make up for their absence of talent by throwing shit together (sometimes literally) before coming up with the most retarded explanation and calling it "art". They seem to think being as retarded as possible to create controversy is art, that might have worked in the late 50s but after 4 decades it's no longer shocking it's just annoying.
2: The worth of literature is measured in how many people need it, writers can earn a lot of money if they contribute to science, journalism and entertainment sufficiently. People who can't create anything of worth tend to occupy the same specturm as pseudo-intellectual college fags. Despite the population being 12 times higher than it was during the 19th century, modern poets are about 50 times less talented.
3: People who don't get rich from their music pretend they were confronted by evil corporations trying to get them to sell out, this isn't true, it is just excuse their failure. Oasis didn't "sell out" but they sold millions of records and the entire band is super-rich. Emofags believe this shit because it eccuses their poor taste in music.

>>9
you've made some statements but none of them really relate to the argument at hand. this thread is about the inordinate amount of attention placed on income to the point that you are deemed unsuccessful if you haven't made a whole bunch of money,  regardless of whatever contributions you've made.

>>10
Your problem is that you give a shit what other people think. Fuck them and their petty bourgeois morality.

>>10
Can't you see how those facts fit in?

Your argument is that you can achieve success by contributing to the arts, literature, music and do not need yuppieism, when in fact yuppieism is a requirement in order to be truly succesful and people who become succesful without adhering to yuppieism in truth have no talent and are desperately making excuses which you and >>11 here believe.