Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

Besides, pointing out a systemic problem with tipping doesn’t mean I won’t tip, it’s incredibly bad faith to suggest that(unless you really interpreted “don’t believe in tipping” as “I don’t tip”)

It is absolutely idiotic to compare between jobs as every job receives things that other jobs do not.

And right now, the reality is that hospitality and food are struggling hard because workers do not want to work for slave-wages and rely on tips/commissions. We are seeing a record number of restaurant closures. It’s not because of covid, or the “evil government and their regulations”, its because of staffing.

This isn’t a socialist perspective mind you, I am coming at this from a purely capitalistic perspective on this subject. And the market demands competition right now.

@Zaknel
Workers aren’t businesses. Competitive work environments are bad because it slows down progress.

@Zaknel
Maybe the issues is tips and not wages than. Tips are used and abuse by corporations to not even pay minimum wage.

@Meanlucario

I love when people go “rawr free market, competition, reeeeeee” and then recoil like a vampire from garlic when presented with the idea that generous pay and benefits would make complete sense within the market.

All because they’re afraid their favorite cheese burger will cost a little extra.

They rarely admit that it’s because they think that certain workers just deserve to be paid less in their eyes. So they’ll veil it in free-market side speak.

A competitive market has an incentive to pay its workers more when their industry turns a higher profit, and lower its prices when it can so ot can attract more business

Not sure why we, as a culture, decided that tipping was a thing we should do. But we did, and now here we are.

If you don’t like the idea of tipping in lieu of a full wage, then you should first try to get rid of the tipping in culture before demanding restaurants raise their prices to support hugher wages. Especially since high minimum wages already have a track record of increasing unemployment, and that will be oh so very true if implemented on tipped workers before tipping is already gone.