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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.