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Yes, we actually did a unit on these types of people in one of my political science classes a while back. They're known as Bourgeoisie Bohemians or "bobos" for
by n0us 11y ago
Yes, we actually did a unit on these types of people in one of my political science classes a while back. They're known as Bourgeoisie Bohemians or "bobos" for short in academia but I recognized them as hipsters. They are a group of people who spend very little on things that used to be expensive but quite a lot on things that would traditionally be perceived as cheap. For example they would never buy a crystal chandelier or a new car, but instead would buy something like a 1980s Volvo. On the mattress end, they would do something like sleep on the ground or buy a very high end "hand wound" mattress.
https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/brooks-bobos.html https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/brooks-bobos.html This book takes a relatively comical approach to the subject but there is a real way to categorize these people other than "annoying to me"
- earlz 11y agoI understand that argument and what a hipster "is", but how does shipping memory foam from an internet site resemble this in any way?
- hnbroseph 11y agoi guess it's cool to describe things reductively so that there's no real direct response.
- vanderZwan 11y agoI think gp was agreeing with the assessment that it doesn't.
- NetStrikeForce 11y agoFunny. "Bobo" means "stupid" in Spanish, although it comes from the Latin "Balbus" (stammering, stuttering, lisping).