Comment on Select a tip

• LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Given a choice? There’s always a choice

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “As little as possible” and “not enough” are two different things.

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  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I suppose, but it’s really hard to separate. You have to pick a cutoff, which in the face of a world full of intangible wealth is hard, and then if you come out with a number that’s too high you basically have nowhere you can shop.

    There’s select industries that are super shitty, and I avoid those, but paying minimum wage for unskilled labour is a normal industry. (And, ironically, a lot of the fair-ethical-organic type businesses are super shitty themselves, because everyone wants to get paid extra, and will do horrible things to make that happen)

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You’re saying this like it’s necessary to eat in restaurants with waiters. It isn’t. It’s a luxury.

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      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Wait, where are you? I thought I recognised you from .ca, but it sounds like you might be thinking of the US system where they can pay nothing except tips. In my province you earn at least minimum wage as a waiter, and tips.

        If I were to just straight up refuse to eat from restaurants under any circumstance, I’d be heavily incurring those intangible costs I mentioned, because it’s an expected social thing. That being said, I might consider it if I was in the US, but I’m not.

        Also, tips have expanded well beyond servers, but that’s kind of beside the point.

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