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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

If tips are bad, the worker quits. If sales are bad, the worker is fired and might collect unemployment benefits.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 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.