Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site pucc-h Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!pucc-j!pucc-h!aeq From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Nippies! Message-ID: <2424@pucc-h> Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 00:48:31 EST Article-I.D.: pucc-h.2424 Posted: Tue Nov 12 00:48:31 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Nov-85 07:21:04 EST References: <467@cornell.UUCP> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 27 Summary: Nippies described by media! (though not under that name) Several weeks ago, U.S. News & World Report had a feature article on what they called the "New Collar Class", the modern-day descendant of the blue-collar class (since actual blue-collar workers do not constitute that high a percentage of the populace any more). This consists of people aged 21 to 40, with incomes from $15,000 to $30,000; many are in occupations that are important (e.g., nursing) but not especially well paid. And there are quite a few million of these people, in fact several times more of them than there are yuppies, seeing that what we're talking about here is the middle class of the baby boom. Some members of this class call themselves "the backbone of America". And apparently, the politicians are finally waking up to them. One pol commented that he was more worried about the computer programmer driving a used Chevy than about the computer salesman driving a Volvo. The funny thing was the way US News distinguished between New Collars and Yuppies; the distinction was based on income, with the line of demarcation being $30,000. Odd; when I ceased to be a New Collar and became a Yuppie (going by pretax income), I didn't feel any wrenching change.... It occurs to me that one advantage of the name New Collar instead of Nippie is that [especially in this group! :-)] the second "i" of Nippie stands a good chance of being misread as an "l". -- -- Jeff Sargent {decvax|harpo|ihnp4|inuxc|ucbvax}!pur-ee!pucc-h!aeq "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune(6)...."