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posted by martyb on Sunday April 07 2019, @12:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the garbage-in-garbage^W-money-out? dept.

In San Francisco, Making a Living From Your Billionaire Neighbor's Trash

Three blocks from Mark Zuckerberg's $10 million Tudor home in San Francisco, Jake Orta lives in a small, single-window studio apartment filled with trash.

There's a child's pink bicycle helmet that Mr. Orta dug out from the garbage bin across the street from Mr. Zuckerberg's house. And a vacuum cleaner, a hair dryer, a coffee machine — all in working condition — and a pile of clothes that he carried home in a Whole Foods paper bag retrieved from Mr. Zuckerberg's bin.

A military veteran who fell into homelessness and now lives in government subsidized housing, Mr. Orta is a full-time trash picker, part of an underground economy in San Francisco of people who work the sidewalks in front of multimillion-dollar homes, rummaging for things they can sell.

One Zuck's trash is another man's "like new".


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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday April 07 2019, @07:12PM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday April 07 2019, @07:12PM (#825897) Homepage

    Being in the Air Force means having to work with a bunch of sniveling pussies. A lot of people make similar decisions to leave the military, if the military doesn't invent excuses to fuck you like it did with the Army and Marines after Gulf War II.

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