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To show how bad $20/hour is (some people might think that is a lot due to local situation) someone paying $2000/month rent should have $6666/month gross income (using 30% rule). That equates to just under $40/hour at 40hours/week.
They are literally making half what they need to live.
Part of the problem is that the main anti-Disney political coalition doesn't want to address the local housing crisis; they want the region to go back to being a suburban sprawl.
You could easily build dense housing in the area that meets the balloon test, but Disney doesn't want to push it and the anti-coalition doesn't want it either.
Disney could build affordable housing, too, as a perk.
You'd need some serious regulation and enforcement. Company towns have historically been, uh... not great.
For example, imagine Disney rents apartments cheap to their employees but still underpays them. Now they're stuck working for Disney because they can't afford the rent offsite and can't save enough to quit.
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Oh dear. Education has really failed this country.
Please, go and read up on Company Towns. They were never a good thing, and often a very, very bad thing.
So you’re saying the entire country has been diminished into a company town? I guess this tracks considering the legalized bribery our corporate oligarchs leverage to control politicians and regulators.
They’re certainly working on it.
The one thing we still have going for us today vs in the past is that debts used to be inheritable. So if/when a Company worker died (and they often did, as most Company Towns were formed around very dangerous jobs) then their wife and children were on the hook.
That meant that if their surviving family had no job, or money to pay off the debt, the Company basically owned them at that point. And the Company could even sell the debt to a person who could pay it—and that got the payee a slave.
(Yes, technically, the person who bought the debt had to pay their newly acquired person a wage, so that person could pay them back to earn their freedom. But as there were no laws as to what wage to set, all they had to do was pay their new indentured servant such a pittance and charge them such high fees for room & board that they would be stuck working for their new owner forever—and even pass the debt on to their heirs, if they ever had any.)
Or, the family could simply be sent to debtor’s prison to rot.
I expect to see these old laws make a comeback at some point, especially if they get Project 2025 rolling.
They do in Florida because, until a few years ago, they had complete control over the municipal government they operated in.
Disney has never had such control over the land around Disneyland.
30% rule is long dead.