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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".
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday April 08 2019, @05:32PM
Another dumb Tweet by Muffin Girl. I'll tell you, I'm no Dictator. If I was, Jeff Bozo wouldn't be the richest "person" in the World, believe me. I would. And, I wouldn't be meeting with Mitch & Nancy, I'd just sign my name, so beautifully, to very special Documents and whatever I wanted would happen. Like it happens for President Xi of China.
And if you look at, how many Billionaires in the different countries of World. U.S.A. has the most -- by far. China is #2. #3 is Germany( Trader Joe's ) and #4 is India. And possibly Narendra's becoming a Dictator, Angela's becoming a Dictator. But, I really don't think so. I hear they have "democracy" there. In Germany, in India. By the way, California has more Billionaires than Germany, I wouldn't call either of them 3rd. World. And I got a great reminder about that on Friday when I did very successful Fund Raiser in beautiful Beverly Hills. In New York City we have the ultimate in luxury. But, Beverly Hills is 2nd.. Big bucks!!!!