[toomanybeersies]

I'm more concerned about the janitors at Facebook that are earning $15 per hour with minimal benefits [1]. Those free meals and free gyms at Facebook and Apple are only for the alphas, the epsilons are there simply to cook their food and clean up after them.

To actually answer your question though, companies will pay the lowest wage possible while still being able to sufficiently fill positions. For engineers at Facebook this is $250k. For janitors and cooks it's $15 p/h.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/26/facebook-...

[jldugger]

> Those free meals and free gyms at Facebook and Apple are only for the alphas, the epsilons are there simply to cook their food and clean up after them.

Apple, at least, charges all employees for food and gym. And staffing the dining center has become hard enough that they pay a thousand dollar referral bonus.

[fjsolwmv]

There's an interesting comment in that article, by someone who doesn't believe in the Copenhagen intepretation of social justice.

> She said she liked working at Facebook and didn’t resent the engineers and product managers she cleans up after. “I know that they are the ones that are making the money,” she said in Spanish. “They are the ones doing the hard job and getting fair pay.”

[sidlls]

Very good point about the epsilons. But at least in the story even they got their soma.

[bfrog]

Same problem with the gig economy