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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) by realDonaldTrump on Monday April 08 2019, @05:46PM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday April 08 2019, @05:46PM (#826270) Homepage Journal

    Mark's going to be 35 years old next month. He's a Billionaire. And he was born in the State of New York. So he will, very soon, qualify to run for President. And I don't read the story in the Corrupt Failing Fake News New York Times. Normally I don't. But if Mark runs I'll have my Campaign people look into, is there any truth to that story? Because it makes Mark look really really bad. It makes him look INCREDIBLY WASTEFUL. A guy that throws away a perfectly good Coffee Machine, a Vacuum Cleaner that still picks up dirt, and so much more (allegedly ). TRUMP2020 doesn't do Fake Dossiers. But we'll use any dirt that checks out. Very important in politics. It's known as Opposition Research!!!!

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