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CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 17 hours agoI 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)
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
You’re saying this like it’s necessary to eat in restaurants with waiters. It isn’t. It’s a luxury.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 17 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.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Well you thought wrong. I was born and raised in the U.S. and lived there until about two weeks ago when we fled.
And in my 47 years in America, I was never in a situation where I couldn’t say, “no thanks” if someone invites me to a restaurant. And who invites you to restaurants and makes you pay?