{"id":177986,"date":"2019-04-08T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/08\/welcome-to-the-3rd-world-2\/"},"modified":"2019-04-08T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T00:14:00","slug":"welcome-to-the-3rd-world-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/08\/welcome-to-the-3rd-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the 3rd World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The newest career path in the Bay Area is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/san-francisco-trash-pickers-mine-billionaires-garbage-2019-4?nojs=1\">picking through billionaire&#8217;s trash<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">San Francisco trash pickers rummage through their billionaire neighbours\u2019 garbage and sell the discarded treasures they find, The New York Times revealed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/07\/us\/trash-pickers-san-francisco-zuckerberg.html\"> story published Sunday.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>One man The Times profiled \u2013 Jake Orta, a 56-year-old military veteran \u2013 lives in government subsidized housing near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-net-worth-priscilla-chan-2017-10\">Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s roughly $US10 million home<\/a>. Orta has uncovered a hair dryer, a vacuum cleaner, and a coffee machine (all still in working condition) in the Facebook CEO\u2019s trash, and an iPad in someone else\u2019s. <\/p>\n<p>Orta sells what he finds, with a goal of earning about $US30 to $US40 a day, according to The Times.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, the whole &#8220;Welcome to the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> World seems to be approaching meme status, but this sounds like something out of a Delhi slum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newest career path in the Bay Area is picking through billionaire&#8217;s trash: San Francisco trash pickers rummage through their billionaire neighbours\u2019 garbage and sell the discarded treasures they find, The New York Times revealed in a story published Sunday. One man The Times profiled \u2013 Jake Orta, a 56-year-old military veteran \u2013 lives in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[484,597,519],"class_list":["post-177986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-environment","tag-inequality","tag-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}