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Facebook's underclass: as staffers enjoy lavish perks, contractors barely get by
The Guardian ^ | 9/26/17 | JC Wong

Posted on 09/26/2017 11:17:29 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

The social network has an army of behind-the-scenes employees who can’t afford to live in an area with out-of-control housing costs...

....In May 2015, amid a nationwide movement to raise the minimum wage, the company established a $15 per hour minimum for its contractors, as well as benefits like paid sick leave, vacation, and a $4,000 new-child benefit.

But those wages only go so far in a region with out-of-control housing costs. San Francisco and San Jose ranked first and third in the nation a recent analysis of rents, with one-bedroom apartments in San Jose going for $2,378. The extreme cost of housing is why California has the highest poverty rate in the country...

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billionaire; exploitation; poor; zuckerberg
So billionaire Zuckerberg makes motions to pretend like he cares about the underclass. But they still struggle with trying to find affordable housing.

Maybe Zuckerberg will let some of those poor into his Hawaiian estate...you know, the one he is building a giant WALL around....

1 posted on 09/26/2017 11:17:29 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Check out the photo that accompanies this story. A large black woman who looks like she just came in from the cotton fields, lol!


2 posted on 09/26/2017 11:21:46 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: SoFloFreeper

Conservative voices everywhere need to diminish Zuckerberg every chance they get. He is as phony as they come.


3 posted on 09/26/2017 11:24:21 AM PDT by LeonardFMason (426)
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To: SoFloFreeper
out of control housing costs

They are not out of control. They are controlled by land use policies and zoning. The politicians in deference to the Silicon Valley types keep new housing from being built in order to keep the neighborhoods expensive and accessible only to the Silicon Valley oligarchs and their highly paid top employees.

4 posted on 09/26/2017 11:30:54 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: miss marmelstein

She also drives a Mercedes and can afford to have her dog’s hair dyed pink.


5 posted on 09/26/2017 11:40:49 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Typical hypocrite libtard gizllionaires. It doesn’t matter if Zuckerturd had all slave labor.....it’a all Trumps,Bush’s,or reagan’s fault just because or something.


6 posted on 09/26/2017 11:44:06 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: SoFloFreeper
Code Monkey song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYodWEKCuGg

7 posted on 09/26/2017 12:00:43 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

He only pays $15 an hour for his contractors? Wow. What do you expect from the man that stole his business idea from his partner.


8 posted on 09/26/2017 12:38:54 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: SoFloFreeper

Zuckerberg is a communist: He dresses like one, he speaks like one, he thieves like one.

This is the age of Crony Communism in America.


9 posted on 09/26/2017 1:08:17 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - JRRT)
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To: YogicCowboy

He’s not a communist, he’s just an immature (now spoiled!) brat that produced the ultimate self replicating pet rock!


10 posted on 09/26/2017 1:10:59 PM PDT by Reily
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To: SoFloFreeper

That’s how it is in most companies.


11 posted on 09/26/2017 5:49:11 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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