Comment on "If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out"

• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  they’re demanding

  do you REALLY think the servers set the prices?

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    No but I can do basic math: taking a higher percentage of higher than inflation price increases is higher than inflation

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    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m saying they’re demanding higher tips

      no, I’ll take what you wrote as what you meant, dumbfuck

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• canniest_tod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Since no one believes in unions and they’ve been legislatively kneecapped, social pressure to pay them tends to fall on the consumer. It’s not ideal, but such is the economy we live in.

  Have you tried blaming someone with power?

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes I’ve tried blaming my fellow voter, tried to persuade them to raise the minimum wage for all workers and do away with the tip wage altogether

    Maybe they’ll still do better than the rest of us, or maybe not, but it’ll put them in the same boat as everyone else, or at least in the same water

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    • canniest_tod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Votes don’t equate to real power. Huge amounts of money and resources, like we see everyday in the news, are what move the needle. The only counter to that is mobilized political outrage. Overwhelming numbers of people making the economy sputter. Otherwise, we can expect more of what we have now.

      But yeah, a higher min wage is a good step forward.

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