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This tweet was from 2022. Can someone go check if the prediction came true?
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Its funny, because minimum wage laws are stagnant and tipped positions are even worse than the bottom rate. $2.35/hr to work in a position that's tipped.
I get it. Demanding 25% of the base price to pay your staff is a fucked way to do business. But if you're not going to pay them, their bosses don't seem interested in doing it either. Somebody's got to do it.
Maybe the problem with tipping is that corporations are able to play chicken with the consumer.
Who's willing to let the worker starve? The consumers are definitely more empathetic
Corpos and their willingness to weaponize empathy is pretty fucking evil.
How many restaurant owners do you know that would increase wages simply because the daily tip rate was falling?
Empathizing with one's working peers is central to emergent class consciousness. Tip your waiters today. Don't cross that picket line tomorrow. General strike the day after.
To be very clear, I sympathize with people who are stuck working a shitty job. That being said, the consumer does not have to give handouts to companies in order to pay employees. If people cannot survive off of wages being paid, they will most likely find a different job. Capitalism and the free market and all that jazz. Hit corpos in the only place they care about, their bottom line.
I'll tip regardless.
There are a lot of reasons why this doesn't hold up. The first and foremost is that transitioning jobs requires savings. The way I see it, my tips are going to help them cross the hurdle to a better job when they get sick of this one. If I withhold my financial support from my working peers, I'm only aiding the employer as their staff remains precariously positioned.
They do not appear to be any obligation to do so.
A barista isn't a tipped wage position. Virtually only restaurant servers are paid the tipped wage. Just because they put a tip jar out doesn't mean their hourly wage drops to pennies, you only get that wage if a significant amount of your income is from tips.
https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/wages/wagestips
Legally speaking, baristas can be treated as tipped wage positions so long as the tips they accumulate earn them in excess of the minimum wage. Putting out a tip jar absolutely does mean their hourly wage can be cut. And thanks to common wage-theft practices by employers and negligence by local prosecutors, an employee who falls under the minimum wage has an uphill battle to recover the difference.