• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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    18 hours 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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      11 hours 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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        5 hours 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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        8 hours ago

        Yeah this protest only works if there are also another set of restaurants that specifically tell you not to tip that you can give business to. I have been to some but they are very rare where I live.

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        12 hours ago

        At this point youre just being disingenuous. There’s a thousand comments in this thread answering that question, and explaining why stiffing the workers doesn’t really affect the owners, or incentivise them to change anything.

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      9 hours 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.