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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I love punishing low wage workers while making statements on how the system should change.

"Oh, you thought you could afford to take a day off this week to help an elderly parent make it to a doctor appointment? Nah, get fucked. You can't afford to that and buy groceries."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's not my fault the system is broken. I'm not going to subsidize them. If they want fair wages they should unionize.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

No, you'll just subsidize the people exploiting them instead because it's convenient and you can't be bothered to heat up your own nuggies, all the while feeling holier than thou about not "subsidizing" the actual worker.

Sounds cool bro.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Stop rewarding the business owner with your money while they're robbing their employees. You only exacerbate the situation with this mentality.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It sucks that low wage workers are stuck in the middle, but corporations are also relying on customer guilt to pay their labor costs while posting record profits.

It's not really fair to blame the customer for that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes it is. Knowingly rewarding shitty business practices and making it "nobody's fault!" is literally your fault. The business has no incentive to change their policies if you keep spending money there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure how I made it "nobody's fault". It's the corporation's fault for low wages, and the government's fault for allowing them to do that.

You're right that they have no incentive to change on their own. And if every business is doing it, it's not realistic to tell consumers to just stop going to every business.

You realize you're turning against consumers in the same economic class instead of turning on the people actually creating the problem.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Actually, they're saying boycott those businesses instead of supporting them, so that maybe actual change can happen. Those business owners only care about their bottom line, it's just that the people with the power to actually effect that bottom line instead say "here's a tip, get a better job" to the lowest person on the ladder.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

But the other person has a point. It's every business nowadays trying to subsidize employee wages with tips. So as a customer we're not supposed to go anywhere? How is that possible? I'll not cross the picket line, but I also need to buy food and groceries and live my life.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

And if every business is doing it, it’s not realistic to tell consumers to just stop going to every business.

I don't know how you can say "boycott those businesses" with a straight face when asking for tips has become so pervasive in every customer-facing industry.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So your saying we should reward the buisness for their poor practice by giving them our money and then protest the practice of tipping by not giving the low wage worker any?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It’s not up to the customer to directly pay the wages of restaurant employees, period. No one is ever “owed” a tip. The food service industry convinces their employees otherwise, and the result is employees blaming customers for the wage theft that the employer is committing. Blaming customers for not tipping is misguided.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Okay. We're past this point in the debate. No, it SHOULDN'T be the customer's responsibility, but that's exactly what it becomes when you justify your nice night out off of the underpaid labor of someone who is just trying to pay their bills. Restaurant owners laugh all the way to the bank reading these threads because they're the ones profiting off of your disdain for a low income worker.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago