• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Don’t like tipping? Protest the policies by not going to restaurants, dont shove it on the workers who are stuck in the system.

    The owner is 100% happy you came to pay him and not the waiter he didnt wanna pay anyway.

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      6 days ago

      Thats one way of looking at it… but if everyone would stop tipping, they would be forced to pay them a living wage or go out of business when all the staff quit. Its actually in the consumers power to effect that change, but only on a mass scale. Unfortunately its an awkward social coercion tactic at play now, which just continues to perpetuate the problem pitting us against each other just as capitalism intends to.

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        6 days ago

        So we don’t need OSHA? We can just let construction workers quit if the contractors make them do dangerous stuff?

        Youre a bit oblivious to your privilege. People can’t just quit or yknow, they starve.

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      5 days ago

      Honestly, in these debates more often than not I find that the waiters don’t want tipping culture changed either. A lot (not all, I understand) of waiters make bank on tips and then don’t accurately report them as income so it’s not even taxed correctly. They don’t want that to change.

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      6 days ago

      Fuck that, there’s federal mandated minimum wage if waiters don’t make enough through tips. You’re a misinformation spreading lunatic. Probably right wing too.