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mike_c

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13. all work is valuable

Reply to milestogo (Reply #11)

Fri Jan 3, 2025, 03:13 PM

Jan 2025

Until all jobs pay a dignified living wage it falls upon the rest of us to avoid exploiting our lower wage sisters and brothers by backfilling their pay to a livable level. It should be their employers' responsibility to pay them living wages, but when business owners shirk those responsibilities, are we to demand that low wage employees be further stripped of living wages by the rest of us?

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Tipping Is Racist and Harms Us All -- It's Past Time to Eliminate It [View all] Unladen Swallow Jan 2025 OP

The only way I'll stop tipping is if I stop going out... Trueblue Texan Jan 2025 #1

this makes no sense. tightwads want tipping to be the norm so prices are cheap, then they save by undertipping. unblock Jan 2025 #4

I have been to dinner with people who don't tip the poorly paid staff... Trueblue Texan Jan 2025 #7

Ok those are tightwads! unblock Jan 2025 #8

sexist too /nt bucolic_frolic Jan 2025 #2

tipping needs to end yesterday. You cant make people depend on the the kindness of strangers for their salary. Blues Heron Jan 2025 #3

Denmark, Belgium, Australia, Germany, Norway, Austria, and The Netherlands... chouchou Jan 2025 #5

I think the ones in the job should make the decision jimfields33 Jan 2025 #6

Many of the countries you mention also give free gov't-backed healthcare FakeNoose Jan 2025 #10

well, I will tip until they raise the base pay for servers LymphocyteLover Jan 2025 #9

There is restaurant tipping, and there is all the other kinds of tipping. milestogo Jan 2025 #11

all work is valuable mike_c Jan 2025 #13

any discussion about ending tipping... mike_c Jan 2025 #12

I'll also tip well until that happens but fully aware we're essentially subsidizing payroll for private enterprise. Alice B. Jan 2025 #14