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Broke, Living In A Basement, With "Negative Savings": This Is What Millennials Spend Their Money On
When work is punished, homes are unaffordable, the American Dream is over, Milennials are burning through their assets or going into debt to survive... So just what is it that they are spending their hard-signed-up-for-benefits money on? We have the answer: Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, the freemium app in which you climb up to the A-list next to Kim Kardashian, made $43.4 million in Q3.
She hasn't hit the projected $200 million just yet (and might not), but Glu Games just announced that Kim K's iPhone game, Kim Kardashian Hollywood, took in $43.4 million in Q3.
According to the earnings call, the infamous game has been downloaded almost 23 million times and played for almost 6 billion minutes.
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Is it any wonder, with all this 'game-playing' the average American needs to spend less time working and more time sleeping...
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Distract, distract, distract...
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I guess that they accept EBT cards for apps now...
South Park nailed this last week
"Freemium isnt Free"
This is what Revolutions are made of.
How many points for each mixed-race marriage?
How many points for cheating on your husband with a different colored man?
How many points for each mulatto baby?
How many points for each abortion?
How many points each time your mulatto baby wins a popularity or beauty contest?
How many points for each plastic surgery?
How many points for attending rehab?
How many points for each relapse resulting in arrest?
How many points for each lap-band surgery?
How many points for each surgery to remove the lap band?
Heidi Klum?
I think Ann Dunham scores higher than Heidi.
Ouch. Fukking funny but ouch.
How many points for a contrived "accidentally released "sex tape?
I still haven't bothered to look up who Kim Kardashian is, and I doubt I ever will...
Her and her evil race are responsible for Kirk's death.
So in this app its easier/cheaper to fly around the world, than to get a date?
What a fantasy land they are making for teenage girls! "Who wants to be a Billionaire's Sex Slave" will be the new reality TV hit (in 2017).
I could maybe dig that. Sounds interesting.
The reason why Millenials are stuck at home playing video games all day is what else can they do?
No one wants to hire them. The few businesses that do offer $8 an hour at 20 something hours a week. Then that paycheck is obliterated by withholdings, so what little is left can only afford 99 cent apps.
With these dead end jobs, they can't afford to travel anywhere.
They take up some hobby, but hobbies cost a lot of money, that they don't have.
They can't get involved in church, because the churches are all scams where half the sermon is about raising funds for the rotting building, meanwhile, the pastor rolls up in a brand new $70,000 car with his oxymoronic NOTW bumper sticker on it.
They try to start a club, but 80% of the time is dealing with corporate and government red tape, instead of actually meeting up and having fun.
They get involved in politics, but get stonewalled because as that Princeton study revealed, the US is an oligarchy and grassroots efforts has ZERO effect on policy.
They are brain damaged from 12 years of public school brainwashing, so they have to "unlearn" all of the lies they were told.
Their Xer parents are at work all day and used the TV to raise them.
Their boomer grandparents only talk about their last doctor's visit and what meds they are on. The only positivity their grandfolks have is that they gambled away their retirement at the Indian casino slot machines like pigeons pecking a button in a Skinner Box. So much for the "wise elders" that traditionally helped humanity. They are all heavily medicated, immersed in their own matrix, then eventually warehoused away.
Tyler Durden summed up the millenials and especially the Xers correctly:
.....but, I was talking about the billionaire sex slave part!
Kardashians? Weren't they the evil dudes on Deep Space Nine?
choich?...d'athist don' need no choich stoopit...
Meh, if only someone would go back in time and let the Cybermen win for once!
Please don't forget this country was built by their fathers and grandfathers.
I heard she's some famous chick with a big ass, that's famous for nothing, except for being famous.
dude dont remind us
Dude! Where's my life? !
Sensationalist graph at the end, in terms of the #hrs and time scale. In the shown period, the average went from 8.70 hours at the beginning to 8.575 hours at the end. That is a delta of 7.5 minutes. Sure, I can make a 1 minute delta look like a fucking mountain, if I zoom in far enough. The delta in sleep is 18 minutes.
Compare that to farcebook, twatter, and the jillion other social thingies that actually take up the majority of work hours.
Perspective...
Yep, F'n unbelievable. Maybe we should check with the late Mrs. OJ Simpson to see how this shit plays out. Wait, we can't ask her...
How many points for a........"new" Blow Job Video?
Gotcha covered: http://www.autoblow2.com/
The Palin family is not much different.
HH,
you're a terrible, awful, horrible and patently wicked human being (and i love you for it)...looks like somebody forgot to check their white/male/Christian privilege at the door. what kind of children are you raising, HH? i mean to say, something is fundamentally wrong with you if you're not instructing them to loathe everything they are. white-middle-class-Christian is the most menacing force ever unleashed on planet earth; and so the responsible parent should do everything in their power to invest in their children a deep and abiding insecurity for it. shame on you, HH! i'll take it a step further, double-shame for procreating. it's bad enough that we exist in the first place, but it's inexcusable to breed more of us into the earth. face the facts, HH: we're evil, and there's nothing you can do to change it.
well, looks like 'someone' is once again playing nasty tricks on janus...i can't type due to this ridiculous delay...brand spankin new computer and 'someone' can't resist the temptation to monitor my every key-stroke. listen up, langley faggots -- janus knows your envy and its resultant enmity...i told you worthless cunts when i started that you couldn't do a goddam thing to stop me, and i've proven it. now, go and monkey around destabilizing some backwater nation of mongrels and quit lusting...
anyway, with respect to the race issue, i came across something not long ago that radically reshaped my understanding of it...i've now concluded that all peoples (broadly defined) should have their own place. there are in this life natural and inevitable disequilibriums that result from human interaction; and since we've devoted ourselves to this fatuous inanity of 'equality', there is therefore the imperative to neutralize those disequilibriums thorough social engineering and the law itself. certainly, on its face this balderdash appeals to people's sense of decency...but it's a horrid and disgusting lie.
here, let me share the clip from youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkpUyB2xgTM
i literally wept when i first saw this...and so, commies & central planners, are you proud of your 'accomplishments'? in an effort to promote equality, you've consigned an entire race to understand themselves as inferior and wicked. nice.
i really-really-really hate you central planners and 'equalizers'. you are the bane black-america's self-esteem; and so the next iteration of your strategy is to immolate the soul of whites? i guess you thought janus was speaking hyperbolically when i said you're going to be lined-up and executed...i wasn't. there can be no peace or happiness in the world with you in it.
say yer prayers, swine.
janus
How many points for each "leaked" sex tape of you getting pounded in the ass by your D or F list boyfriend?
NO, they'll spend their money on Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew! Not a joke:
http://tinyurl.com/k48jz8d
This isn't ALL millennials. I just added to my stack.
Typical misdirection. Yeah blame the people under 35 who had absolutely no part in developing what this shithole of a country has become. "Oh they're just lazy!" Right. I dare anyone saying that bullshit to go out, try to get a job in any field and put on your application that you have little experience to no experience. Good luck.
When will some creative programmer make the games we really want to see?
Make THESE:
Spot on Paveway! The sniper game should include the ability to work up and test custom load data, and test fire each, with all of the real-life data input, including barrel length & twist, all powder, primer, and bullet combos, etc...
I love your games, I really do, if I played I would want most of the live action versions not the virtual ones. However, I do see issues:
How about Grand Theft Bankster: The TBTF Stories
Those are excellent ideas! The only problem is that there are not enough of "us" that know what is going on to buy the app. Everyone else would ignor it or have the AIPAC goons come down on the owners.
Halo IV: Coventry Lost - Final Shreik of the AIPAC Grunts
[It's a HALO thing. Grunts are, well... ]
Idiocracy is here.
Great documentary. Watch it and "Ow! My Balls!," if you haven't yet.
Vote Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho/Billary 2016!
lots of tards out there livin kick-ass lives
OW My Balls!
I am so ashamed of our fellow Americans....
ashamed is the wrong word - it implies relationship - most americans are morons which i believe are better off dead - try using the word disgusted or reviled or disdainful or get these clowns the fuck out of here!
Divide & rule, scro.
Just a warning: it is best to watch Idiocracy alone. If you show it to friends, you will lose some of them once they realize that they are the butt of the joke.
stupid is what stupid does...fucking unbelievable, didn't even know this shit existed...
hopelessly hopeless imfo.
see in the day (40 years ago), i don't recall people doing anything so fucking dumb and non-productive. at least back then you would go outside and play(hangout now) and look for friends to throw the football, buckets, or something fun. guess i'm a old fart that don't get it.
Everybody gets a trophy, you're so special, they shouldn't have to work, Etc...
If they want sympathy, maybe they can find it in the Webster's, somewhere between sex and syphilis.
Nah, vote Elizabeth Warren 2016.
As soon as Wall Street's done paying her off she'll go after them.
That bitch is fat? SWTF?
Put it on credit....you can be one of the fat bitchez....bitchez.
RIPS
Heart breaking.
Palestinians break through West Bank barrier to mark Berlin Wall anniversary
Redistribution of Hydrocarbons According to Henry Kissinger
why work when you can jack off to internet porn all day
I must be getting old. I can only jack off 4-5 hours a day now... Maybe it's time for some of those little blue pills...
Huge ass?
I pass.
fat bottomed girls make this rocking world go round.........
"Feedin' and breedin' and pumpin' gas...cheeseburger...cheeseburger...do it again!"
DEVO: "What We Do": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp2tQ75pTD0
40+ years of nearly unrecognized brilliance.
Don't wanna be no Spud-boy, that's fer sure!
South Park just did a new episode on this.
Only in Amerika can you go that far with a big ass and loose legs.
pods
Virtual reality - it's so cool!
STFU, non-middle-class: you have everything you need.
+108
The government should step in here. They are getting more than their prescribed 8 hours of sleep per day.
"'cause it's Friday; you ain't got no job... and you ain't got shit to do."
big-bottoms, my girls got em
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN42uzNFVmQ
I blame society.
Otto: That's bullshit. You're a white suburban punk just like me.
Duke: Yeah, but it still hurts.
Let's go do some crimes.....
Right!
We'll be arresting them too!
What the hell has this world become? Get off your asses and read a book for goodness sake.
The world map shown clearly indicates that Africa needs to get with the program.
The last thing people in Africa care about is this fat-assed whore.
What a pathetic generation. We're doomed.
The problem is that too many Americans are asleep even during their waking hours.
They are unfortunately becming the living dead.
#Paxil
#Zoloft
#Anyotherchemicallysubduingagent.
SLEEPLE ? (Googled for a definition and didn't find one ....)
Urtica Fox! +1000
this is embarrassing but i just had to google who kadarshian is...
i am out of touch with what is popular i guess
she's famous cuz Dad got a rich murderer to go free.... its quite a legacy for fame.
I admit I don't get it.
I gave up on the human species years ago.
who is Kim Kardashian?
An armenian self absorbed kneegrow loving whore?
My 17 yo daughter had to write an essay on a topic most people arent aware of.
I suggested two:
I gave her several links to some great articles here on the hedge.
She said she didnt have time to read those.
I told her if she cant dedicate the time to read and understand a few well laid out articles, she deserves to fail the assignment.
Now get back to pecking on your iPhone.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The Fable of the Bees
"Let them eat Fake." ~Corporate America
"APP" Development costs what? A few thousand dollars in India. Sales and marketing maybe 10 Million. And Kim walks with $32 million dollars! Who says America is NOT the land of opportunity? She must absolutely pinch herself to see if she is really awake when her profit statements come in! If America wants this bitch's APP, then she deserves every penny she takes from the fools.
Much more than that. that's $43 million THIS QUARTER. Too bad she won't break $200 Million this year. Oh well, there's always next year.
How sad. Recent article in the UK press wrote about a survey stating just 5% of UK men aged 18-24 would ATTEMPT to unblock a blocked sink the remaining 95% would have to get someone else to do it. Millennials you really are going to be truly fu**ed!!!
This is true. A daughter's boy friend, staying over with us in the country, plugged my bathtub drain and then broke the drain lever. He said he'de pay for the plumber as he felt bad about breaking the mechanism. I said, give me a minute, stripped it all down to parts, replaced the broken bit and put it back together. Then snaked out the drain pipe as it had already been slow for awhile. I think kids don't know anything because they have no man in their lives to show them the simple fixes. Note, his father is divorced from his Mom, she spoils and babies him. It shows! Also, I taught the kid how to shoot a pistol and my shoot gun. My daughter and I practice shoot every few weeks, he was shocked to be learning to shoot in front of a girl who had done it for years! Again, the boy has no father, just an overbearing mother who spoils him. The kid also lacks respect for adult men, nobody ever taught him respect. This is America, the nation women wanted so bad to be like this.
You're hitting the nail directly on the head, Jack...
The Frankfurt School and their larvae have succeeded in their objective of destroying Western society. And by far the most damaging weapon in their armory has been feminism.
Don't assume all those millenials are living in their parents basements, playing the Kardashian game and working part-time at Mickey D's. A lot ARE, but a lot more are more independant than that. If they ARE living in the basement, they are very likely to be working-perhaps off the books-and contributing to Mom and Dad.
In 'Boomer-day', a career, home, family, were the foundations of what we called 'Life'. Millenials are more mobile, nomadic even. The 30-year career of our youth no longer exists, and most millenials will become serial-employees. There is reluctance among them to start families, which means no demand for mortgages. So the three things WE considered so important don't have the same meaning to millenials.
They are adjusting to the New Normal, that's all. They aren't being 'lazy', or acting 'entitled', they are merely looking out at their world and figuring out how best to navigate it. Just like WE did to the world WE looked out at when we were their age. But those worlds are very, very different, and we shouldn't be surprised if they make very different choices than we did. The 'serial employee' who changes jobs every year may, to US, seem flighty and irresponsible, but he may in fact be doing the best he can in today's world. And the reluctance to settle down and be good little suburbanite homeowners may not be a sign of refusing to 'grow up'. It may be a practical decision NOT to get entangled with the kind of burdens and grief his parents had.
I partially agree with your assessment. A lot of youth 13-16 don't even want a car. It's too much of an expense. Family? No thanks. But we cannot simply deduct that they are just trying to navigate differenr waters. That generatin was over-indulged and this behavior is a tribute to that as well lower prospect of financial autonomy.
very fair comment - they are trying to survive in a difficult environment - but they also have more inclusive group of friends outside their families than the boomers - so they dont need to create a family
A millenial I speak with often said something poignent on this subject to me recently, and it stuck with me as how their generation views this very matter:
"Friends are the family you choose for yourself."
Bravo. Good to see someone at least 'gets it'.
While there is probably a higher percentage of shit heads than generations past, most of us are adjusting to the new normal… we did not get to be in on that massive home equity explosion fueling the economy since the early 2000's; for us, housing looks unattractive, even in spite of some of us making it into a 6 figure income by now…
Jobs are more fleeting by their very nature now. Most companies are so obsessed with the bottom line that they are happy to let skilled employees go to the competition rather than stump up some extra coin to retain you. By being nomadic and mobile I have managed to double my income by seeking out companies that want to expand production without big capex into new facilities. The harder I work, the more I make, and the more they make.
It ain't pretty, but it's the hand we were dealt, and most of us are doing the best we can with it.
"Most companies are so obsessed with the bottom line that they are happy to let skilled employees go to the competition."
Tell me about it. Worked for a technology company that was literally destroyed by this. And by short term executives buying back shares to skew the value of their options. Totally disgraceful and as far as I know there were no personal repercussions for them.
The young have been dealt a deck of cards. It is not the same hand we who are over 50 were dealt. Our was better in many ways, and much worse in others. But we had so much more career potential than todays kids. Nobody I knew as a youth, who were motivated to learn and work, ever failed to make a good life and good living. It was there for anyone willing to work for it. I know that we can't say that today!
Tittytainment?
Bootyfull.
35 years ago I found myself returning home to start over. Stupidly I chose to major in a subject which provided no work for a BS degree. My parents made it hell. I re-tooled - I worked during the day and took MS classes in CS at night to the point I could get an entry level programming job. That change afforded me years of great pay/opportunity. What do these kids today have to build upon ? Social media ? That's like saying you are good at watching movies/playing games. We have a whole generation that has contributed very little. Where is the innovation ?
"We have a whole generation that has contributed very little. Where is the innovation ?"
We have an entire political system that seems to hate what Amerika used to stand for. I used to be a sr. software engineer till I was forced to train my little foreign national replacements and they sent my job over there. I was able to shift over into a different career but it was a close call ... good luck dude.
"Where is the innovation ?"
We are still innovating at an accelerating rate. As long as this golden age of abundant energy continues, we'll get further and further along. Not everyone can be an Edison or an Einstein.
Never has any previous generation or nation poisoned the minds and bodies of its people so completely.
Ebola might actually prove to be both liberating and cleansing.
+100
Being 30 never felt so good. I must be retarded. My phone Applications include WebEx, Fidelity, VPN Authenticator, Skype, Pidgin, LinkedIn, Uber, Yelp, Paypal, and Lyft. Guilty of having the Cleveland Browns application on my phone though.
The earlier post on here about my generation was terrible to read. I find myself asking "How do this people my age either flat bum broke or own new house, car, kids, and vacations constantly?" Well 90% either live outside their means in credit realm, parents foot bill, or luck. Almost 100% out of personal / school debt (done in Feb. 2015 completely), I rent and buy very little and try to save all I can. Yet I can not even fathom purchasing a house, car, vacation, etc. It's just mind blowing my generation is either at home or in their over priced unaffordable about to lose it home.
Pass the Mountain Dew Doritos. Real life is to hard. /sarc
Stupidly obvious question: Where is the incentive for young people to do anything else?
They can go to school, work hard, get good grades, get out and get two minimum wage jobs while wistfully eyeing 3/4 of a million dollar dilapidated shacks instead? Fuck that.
Young people know the shit sandwich they've been handed and while they still have to eat it, fuck actually helping society prepare it for them.
If they're one of the protected minorities no such difficulties are faced.
We are fucked. This is more dangerous than Ebola.
Having visited a few countries outside of the main touristy places I always thought it was pretty cool to see three generations of family living under one roof. Maybe it was for economic reasons but most times I envied the family cohesion those families enjoyed.
Fuck millenials, they're too lazy and stupid to even vote for the freedom of paper or plastic bags
You can walk down any walking trail in this country to discover that people have already proved themselves incapable of handling the responsibility of plastic bag ownership. It'd be a lot easier to agree with you if people didn't trash their own commons.
I have to agree with you there.
My kids took me to their favorite scenic spots in the Rockies that are accessible by car because I have a gamey leg and I was appalled at the piles of junk scattered around the empty trash cans.
I made a joke about the stoners can't even hit the trash cans and they told me it was the stoners who came and picked the places up after the beer drinking farmer rednecks trashed it.
Learn something new every day.
I find that very hard to believe.
I don't....I do a lot of hiking in the southern appalachians and most of the national forest campgrounds in this region are trashed by the local resident beer-drinking hillbillies. The stoner city kids that come through peridically actually leave the place in better shape than when they arrive.
Since I don't watch cable or network tv, I just don't get many of the tv 'cultural references'.
Thank Bog I have ZH to keep me up to date on all the things they don't watch but know everything about.
I say good for KK. Parting stupid people from their money is a noble American traditon dating back to when this country was a colony.
Always go for the low hanging fruit. It's easier and apparently, very renumerative.
Financial newsletters by subscription for the slightly smarter folks are too much work.
Global gaza. That's been the plan. Now it's nearing.
Was surprised to see the reputable hedge funds that hold this stock - RenTec, AQR, Millennium, Citadel, DE Shaw. Not to mention managers like BlackRock, Vanguard, Franklin. Figured they wouldn't be associated with this moron
Wasn't there a game called trivial pursuit? Or did the name just change?
Oh for christ's sake Homers Ghost, you must be one of the people living in mom's basement AND using Internet Explorer for a browser.
Get Chrome or Firefox and the adbllock addon, and the ads will be gone.
Educate yourself about your tools, instead of whining about Tyler...
Welcome to my world! 3 down. 2 to go.
The country is in worse shape than I thought; 6 billion minutes? Dumbed down trolls that need to be kicked out of the basement.
www.traderzoo.mobi
Ah, get ready guys, what you will see over the next few years will turn the heart to stone, or break it into a thousand pieces.
Some 20 years ago I attended a piano/pot-luck for my daughter. After the recital, I fell into a conversation with the husband of the piano teacher. He had just retired from the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office, family services department. He reported that, at the time of his retirement, there were 600,000 open cases pertaining to child support in LA county.
I estimated that this represented 1 in 3 child-raising families in the county; that a ratio of 1 in 20 was a disaster. If this is so, what kind of disaster is 1 in 3?
A few months later, I called the DA’s office for Orange County for the same info. The woman who answered said, ‘Just a minute”. She returned and said, “105,000”. By my estimate: that was 1 in 6 child-raising families in the county.
I asked, “Why?” The retired lawyer blamed it on the apathy of the large immigrant population of LA county. The woman from the OC office, ‘we are restricted in what we can do by due process procedures.’
It is kind of odd: strict due process for behavior that ruins lives; and pure inquisitorial procedures for someone who offers an alternative to a system that financially cannibalizes children.
Just think, between ratios of LA and Orange counties, what should be expect on a nation wide scale… 1 in 4… 1 in 5 families?
It all comes down to the verdict of history proven over and over, ‘Taxes and regulations are always laid on the weakest members of society.’
If you call your local DA's office for the same info, leave the answer as a REPLY.
Check out Cloward Piven.
Add in the fact that most of these female 'millenials' should have their knees superglued together.
I will volunteer for the job using my personal glue gun.
they have been enlightened. there is no meaning to life. there is only life.
half dead mofuckers
It's not just the fact that the houses costs six figures, or the jobs just aren't there unless you're doing the boss or letting them do you, land is expensive, the building codes are bubble boy overkill and the financing rules say unless you already have the money, you can't get the money.
So what's a kid to do? Well, start learning skills with your hands. Learn how to make shit instead of buying it. Learn how to sew, boys and girls both. It will serve you well in combat and in clothing. Figure out what you really need and find a sucker for the rest. Make personal connections, they'll mean more than facebook likes. Force yourself to meet people and learn how to tell the crap from the honest.
School of Hard Knocks. Coming to all of these kids before they know it. But the rich won't care as long as theres slaves to clean thier sewers, mow their grass and pump their pool. The rest of us need to worry about simplier lives and learn how to aim well and shoot straight.
Anything on the app with her on knees getting her tonsils glazed by Kanye?
Hell why not what else are they supposed to do? Work 2 40hr (oops make that 3 29hr ) burger flipping jobs only to have to share a $1000 month apt with 3 others?
Fuck the idiots running the US time to burn the motherfucker down.