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cgod  ·  3566 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Gratuitous Injustice of American Tipping Culture

If I got payed minimum wage I'd take a $10-20 an hour pay cut. This would be a highly desirable outcome for owners of capital and a terrible outcome for workers.

My bet is we will see tipping eliminated before we see the minimum wage become a living wage. All you folks who hate tipping can feel great that you won't be trouble over the expectation that you are under a fuzzy sorta obligation to leave a small portion of your meal expense to the person who got it there. Meanwhile the people who work hard to put food in your guts and booze in your veins will no longer be able to do things like maybe buy a house or support a few kids in something other than poverty.

I understand that you are for a living wage but the owners of capital call the shot in this society and it rarely works out in favor of the worker.