Now here's a question... what about the cleaners of the Facebook offices? How much do they get paid and how do they afford to live in Silicon Valley?
That's a question you're not allowed to ask, because the answers - we don't pay the cleaners enough and/or we spend too much - are uncomfortable for the people who should be asking them.
To answer your question, the cleaners of the Facebook offices probably aren't Facebook employees, but contractors of some third party company. And they likely live further away and commute, or live in a lower cost, less desirable neighborhood in the area that the person writing this article probably thought below him.
This article might be worth reading
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/30/what-we-know-about-the-people-who-clean-the-floors-in-silicon-valley/
Not worth reading even a little bit. The bias is so evident it practically reads like one of the political ads you see this season.
There's definitely a race-baiting angle to it, but that's not what sent my bullshit-o-meter off the rails.
What pissed me off about the article is that it's yet one more academic circle-jerk in which a bunch of White Collared Professionals get together and discuss the problem of The Poors, without actually bothering to talk to anyone from the class whose problems they say they're trying to solve. It's the sort of thing that gives academics and journalists a bad name, even though the person who wrote this article, and the people who were interviewed, probably believe they're doing something that helps to solve the problem.
This journalist appears to have read an article, and then interviewed two academics, an administrator for a lobbying charity, a union leader, and a member of upper management at a headhunting firm. But the article is about janitors and bus drivers. She didn't bother to track down even one and ask for his or her take on the issue. Instead she bitched about how the Chamber of Commerce wasn't available for comment. I get that she writes for a newspaper out of Washington, DC, but the way she went about researching this article made her come across as though she couldn't get her head any further up her ass if she used a crowbar.
Were there truly no janitors available to interview? Or were they busy WORKING unlike all the other stuffed shirts who had time to be quoted?
What I'd have really liked would have been if she'd used social media or an online classified ad to talk to some of those hardcore badasses who can survive and raise a family in a HCOL area while pushing a broom. I bet they're frugal as fuck and we could all learn from someone who really walks the walk.