Disney is evil, no question, but I gotta call a bit of BS on this.
Sadly, most journalists are both innumerate and dishonest. This journalist (whoever he is) is guilty of one or both sins.
- Disney has roughly 75K employees in FL
- Most (almost all?) of the FL employees work at/near Disney World property in Orange county.
- Much of orange county (on average) is too expensive for the crappy wages a Disney hourly worker would make. (Not talking about the software engineers, upper management, etc.)
- A large portion of those employees probably (I don't have stats on this, just an educated guess) are going to have to live in Polk county or other neighboring counties. Let's assume that 10% of those 75K employees live in Polk county. So ... 7.5K Disney employees in Polk county.
- There are 750K people in Polk county. Take out the non working age people, and you are left with 450K.
So, straight up 1.5% of the Polk county working age citiziens work for Disney.
Given the above, if I sweep up 160 random people, I'd expect (on average) to pick up 2-3 Disney employees.
SO ... If the journalist had any integrity (yay for click bate!) and any basic math skills, they would be wondering why only 1 Disney employee showed up in the ghetto hooker sweep.
(All of my data sources above are from my basic knowledge of central FL and about of minute of searching on DuckDuckGo...)
Disney is evil, no question, but I gotta call a bit of BS on this.
Sadly, most journalists are both innumerate and dishonest. This journalist (whoever he is) is guilty of one or both sins.
1. Disney has roughly 75K employees in FL
2. Most (almost all?) of the FL employees work at/near Disney World property in Orange county.
3. Much of orange county (on average) is too expensive for the crappy wages a Disney hourly worker would make. (Not talking about the software engineers, upper management, etc.)
4. A large portion of those employees probably (I don't have stats on this, just an educated guess) are going to have to live in Polk county or other neighboring counties. Let's assume that 10% of those 75K employees live in Polk county. So ... 7.5K Disney employees in Polk county.
5. There are 750K people in Polk county. Take out the non working age people, and you are left with 450K.
So, straight up 1.5% of the Polk county working age citiziens work for Disney.
Given the above, if I sweep up 160 random people, I'd expect (on average) to pick up 2-3 Disney employees.
SO ... If the journalist had any integrity (yay for click bate!) and any basic math skills, they would be wondering why only 1 Disney employee showed up in the ghetto hooker sweep.
(All of my data sources above are from my basic knowledge of central FL and about of minute of searching on DuckDuckGo...)
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