Comment on "If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out"
canniest_tod@lemmy.world 1 day agoSince 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?
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
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.