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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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What is going on with the comments here? Tipping is great for the worker. It allows me to sell my labor directly to consumers without the ownership class taking a cut as middleman.
Frankly, I have to reemphasize what the author said: Not tipping changes nothing for the owner; it only exploits the laborer.
I'll reemphasize the point, I feel, other posts are making, but you might be to close to see it.
The burden of paying the laborer is 100% on the owner. The idea of making customers tip and saying "That's how it is now and if you don't tip you hurt the laborer" is a false statement. The burden is still on the owner. Period. When you keep stressing the system with underpaid workers and expect customers (who are also underpaid workers) to pay for that then it hurts EVERYONE.
You are explaining that it hurts the workers. I got it. It hurts EVERYONE because the owners are trying to move their burden to us.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, direct your blame at the correct groups. Having the customers and the staff mad at each other and blaming each other distracts from the actual cause of these frustrations.
I'm only mad at those who are trying to disrupt the system that lets me support a family of five on one income. There is ONE industry that's figured out a way to make a living wage work for everybody and I think that's worth defending.
Getting rid of tipping would mean higher prices for the consumer, worse service, lower pay for workers, and for what? Because the owners "should" be paying? Worse outcomes for the sake of an ideological nitpic.
Adam Ruins Everything explains it nicely; it really needs to be the responsibility of the business to pay their workforce. https://youtu.be/q_vivC7c_1k