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It's almost like they value the image of being progressive more than actually being progressive.
It's almost like market demands them to be seen as progressive.
you say that as if it's a bad thing?
Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet
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Re: Cafeteria workers at Facebook struggle to make ends meet
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Income inequality is far greater in the Facebook/Google/Mozilla types of places. Rural areas have much less variability. When hackers grow older, and decide they don't want noise and 4-story apartments nearby, then yes, the peaceful do have an impact. They don't feel it because they donate to EFF and recycle and have a "Nuclear-Free Zone" sign at the entrance to their town. But the root of Bay Area inequality is hous…
Well you can move just without your support system and build one. Plenty of people do that.
Yes, middle-class families can do this. Lower-middle and the bottom 25 percentile of income cannot readily build a support network.
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This is a great question. Those electronics are actually rational purchases, considering their situation. The total value of the entertainment devices is around $2500. Spread out over 3 years (the length of time they've lived there), this equates to about $70/mo. These devices offer a lower-cost option than taking the family out to eat twice per month, cable television, or for each of the adults to go out to a tavern…
I can't agree with you sorry. No yard? Try a park in town. You can have hours of fun with a $20 soccer ball or basketball or wiffleball or cornhole or horse shoes. Need entertainment? Read a book from the library. The great thing is you might actually learn something. You're wrong about the value of $70 a month for someone who takes payday loans. If they banked the $840 per year they could save hundreds in payday loa…
Thanks for the input. I think you either are an extreme autodidact or haven't been exposed to the poverty trap.
Try a park in town? Not at night time you won't. Night time? Yeah, your irregular shifts cause you to have down time at random times. Remember, the Facebook contract isn't their only gig.
I never pretended the job should pay more. I'm remarking about the choice to purchase electronic entertainment being rational.
I actually agree with you that the parents have the choice to commute from East Oakland, Antioch, or Tracy if they want to start saving money. They are clearly making some trade-offs. I think their trade-offs are rational, but they shouldn't blame Zuck
Facebook is heavily pushing employees to transfer to Seattle. They even keep their pay rate!
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About half of minimum wage workers are at least 25 and three-quarters are at least 20. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/09/08/who-makes-mi... >Is every single type of profession required to support a family of 4? "A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more, otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring…
Adam Smith is such a commie. The man clearly has an agenda. Good thing no one takes his work seriously.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?
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Sadly, the US tax code rewards not getting married, doubly so if both partners are high earners (see the marriage penalty). If you don't like this, don't concern troll, instead, ask your representatives why this continues to exist.
The US tax code also rewards people getting married, typically when the partners have very different incomes (see marriage bonus). Marriage penalties and bonuses are a consequence of joint filing combined with a progressive rate structure. They continue to exist because to get rid of them would require giving up either join filing or progressive rates, and it is very unlikely that people would go for giving up one or…
So what you're saying is that the US tax code continues to reward one partner sacrificing their career and penalizes partners who wish to both continue their careers?
There's more than one way to make ends meet and I'd be happy to see the wide variety of elaborate tax breaks available to high-income sorts based on elaborate business constructs removed to make up for this rather than punish young married couples. But then, I'm all for a mostly flat tax, warts and all, no deductions whatsoever, past a certain level of income, say the national median.
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Kansas City, and it's nearly infinite suburbs, would be incredibly comfortable at 75k. Could easily afford a nice home in one of the bustling urban neighborhoods, or a 2,000+ sq ft. in the burbs, or something with a few acres out in the country but near an interstate for commuting.
I would love to move to a more affordable rural area, but as an Asian guy married to a white wife, I'm a little afraid of how we (and our kids) might be treated. Back in the early 90s, my family temporary moved to a predominately white neighborhood in the more rural parts of Pennsylvania and got some death threats that very day. We only stayed a few months before we moved again, but that left some lasting memories fo…
Sorry for the late reply. Didn't see it until today.
I think you and your family would be fine in a midwestern city like Kansas City. But I also know there are risks. The Indian men who were shot by a racist, were shot in a suburb of Kansas City. However, the city as a whole was horrified by the event. And it's a very diverse city. Not as cosmopolitan as cities on the coast, of course, but every time I go to the city center, I see people of all types and frequently hear languages other than English & Spanish spoken.
I currently live in a rural Kansas town. Living in a place like this as an Asian would present some challenges, but the overall attitude from most of the people is generally "If you don't scare the horses, we don't care who you are or what you do." It's a different place than the American South (or rural Pennsylvania). Here people just want to mind their own business. I couldn't guarantee it would be a great place for you, but if you want to try being rural again, it wouldn't be a terrible place to look.