The 80's are known as the decade of the Yuppie, the Young Urban Professional obsessed with money, status and materialism in their expensive t-shirts and skinny jeans sipping Perrier.
The choices they made then set the stage for the cultural division and inequality we have now says writer Tom Mcgrath.
He draws the line between the choices they made 40 years ago about food, fashion and urban living to society today in his book, Triumph of the Yuppies: America, the Eighties, and the Creation of an Unequal Nation.
Triumph of the Yuppies book cover Photo: supplied
