Everywhere you look are signs of a wasteful society:
Liang Zhao Zhang’s job is to clean up BART stations in downtown San Francisco and clean up he does: He swept in $162,000 in overtime pay last year, records show.
Call Zhang the super janitor, an extraordinarily high earner in a field where the beloved school custodian rarely brings home more than $50,000 a year.
Zhang grossed $235,000 in 2015, four times more than his base pay as a janitor. Benefits brought his total cost of employment at the rail agency to more than $270,000. And records show this isn’t the first time he raked in six-figure compensation at BART. Zhang received a combined $682,000 in pay and benefits over the last three years.
This is a sign that we are not even near K-selection yet. In K-selection, you would not even get close to this level of resource wastage, because the resources wouldn’t be there.
Which raises the question, why have we gone as far K as we have, if the resources haven’t been cut nearly enough.
My guess would be that we are programmed to prepare for the future before it arrives by cuing on subtle cues we cannot even notice consciously – and this indicates that our future includes a lot of K-selection.
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that looks good, until you remember that the BART is in SF. that is no where near enough money for living in SF. I’d need hazardous rabbit pay for that.
As for the ‘he was paid this much’ if he was earning all the OT, and it was only 1.5 OT – that is bumped after the first 40 hours, but never again. Then I’m ok with that, although management should have hired 2 other janitors to cover the hours. Frankly the Janitor maybe a K living in a sea of r’s