Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet
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Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet
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Re: Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet
#2“Back in the day, [the wage] would have been a great number,” said Victor, “but because of Facebook moving in, everything is so expensive. I have to get payday loans sometimes. We barely make it.”
They make a combined (rounded) $75,000/year. The real tragedy is that you can't afford to make it in the Bay Area on $75k/yr.
I don't think that's something you can blame solely on Facebook.
Re: Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet
#3“Back in the day, [the wage] would have been a great number,” said Victor, “but because of Facebook moving in, everything is so expensive. I have to get payday loans sometimes. We barely make it.” They make a combined (rounded) $75,000/year. The real tragedy is that you can't afford to make it in the Bay Area on $75k/yr. I don't think that's something you can blame solely on Facebook.
> I don't think that's something you can blame solely on Facebook.
I don't think "Facebook" is solely blamed. Facebook is used as a canonical example of SV companies.
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#4Serious question, politics aside. How many jobs have been prior filled by teenagers or recent college graduates, that are no longer being filled by those groups for whatever reason? Is every single type of profession required to support a family of 4?
Edit: 5, per the photo on the article
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#5“Back in the day, [the wage] would have been a great number,” said Victor, “but because of Facebook moving in, everything is so expensive. I have to get payday loans sometimes. We barely make it.” They make a combined (rounded) $75,000/year. The real tragedy is that you can't afford to make it in the Bay Area on $75k/yr. I don't think that's something you can blame solely on Facebook.
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Re: Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet
#6“Back in the day, [the wage] would have been a great number,” said Victor, “but because of Facebook moving in, everything is so expensive. I have to get payday loans sometimes. We barely make it.” They make a combined (rounded) $75,000/year. The real tragedy is that you can't afford to make it in the Bay Area on $75k/yr. I don't think that's something you can blame solely on Facebook.
> I don't think that's something you can blame solely on Facebook. I don't think "Facebook" is solely blamed. Facebook is used as a canonical example of SV companies.
Even then. Housing prices are obviously related to Silicon Valley companies, but there's much to be said about housing policy as well.
Re: Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet
#7I wonder how much interest they're paying on those "payday loans".
Re: Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet
#8> “He doesn’t have to go around the world,” said Nicole. “He should learn what’s happening in this city.”
The journalists probably wouldn't notice and thus there would be no (noteworthy) PR and thus no reason to do it. But now that there's negative publicity he might just get around to that.
Re: Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet
#9“Back in the day, [the wage] would have been a great number,” said Victor, “but because of Facebook moving in, everything is so expensive. I have to get payday loans sometimes. We barely make it.” They make a combined (rounded) $75,000/year. The real tragedy is that you can't afford to make it in the Bay Area on $75k/yr. I don't think that's something you can blame solely on Facebook.
> I don't think that's something you can blame solely on Facebook. I don't think "Facebook" is solely blamed. Facebook is used as a canonical example of SV companies.
> They earn too much to qualify for state health care, but not enough to afford the health insurance offered by their employer. They frequently struggle to find enough money for basics like food and clothes for their children. Victor recently borrowed money from his mother to hold a birthday party for one of his daughters, and from a friend to pay for a dentist appointment.
This one might be a little unpopular but it needs to be said. I have an ax to grind / pet peeve here. What we need to do is get rid of means testing for entitlements and government services in general. I want to live in a world where the excelsior scholarship[1] does not ask how much your parents (or you!) make. If we can afford a program to feed the poor, we can afford a program to feed everyone (who meets residency requirements I guess if we are talking state or city level funding).
The real devil is means testing and nobody talks about it because we are essentially using it as a vote bank / scare tactic. "Don't vote for Republicans or they'll starve you and/or let you die without health care." we say.
tl;dr we should get rid of means testing.
[1] https://www.ny.gov/programs/tuition-free-degree-program-exce...
Re: Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't think that's something you can blame solely on Facebook. I don't think "Facebook" is solely blamed. Facebook is used as a canonical example of SV companies.
Even then. Housing prices are obviously related to Silicon Valley companies, but there's much to be said about housing policy as well.
The sad part is that California, being the largest state in the US, should be the last one to have this sort of housing problems...