Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07.

• UmeU@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There are only like 5 companies now so the free market is broken.

  They collude to keep us poor enough to not revolt, but ‘rich’ enough to keep buying their crappy products.

  If they take everything we have we won’t have anything left to give them. It’s a delicate balance that they seem to have mastered as they write our legislation.

  Tipping is just another way for the corporations to reduce the overhead by having the customer pay the wages of the employee directly, reducing both the budget for salaries and also the reducing ancillary expenses like unemployment insurance and employer wage withholding, occupational privilege tax, etc.

  Also, I like being called a yank. It feels old timey and kind of makes me think of masturbation.

  The labor market is so fucked we have phd’s competing for a job at McDonald’s.

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  • then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Tipping is just another way for the corporations to reduce the overhead by having the customer pay the wages of the employee directly, reducing both the budget for salaries and also the reducing ancillary expenses like unemployment insurance and employer wage withholding, occupational privilege tax, etc.

    It also makes these jobs falsely competitive against other “unskilled” jobs where tipping isn’t the norm.

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• MagicShel@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Us yanks aren’t all for anything. I’ve certainly become quite disillusioned about the free market over the past 40 years or so.

  But in fact, free market principles suggest we would have tipless alternatives where workers make fair wages and the market could decide to reward those businesses or not. We do not have such alternatives and the market has failed us before the questions is even properly posed.

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