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The only way you can help increase the wages is to not tip, all it does is subsidize the owners
The problem is, in the meantime some of the worst paid people in ~~your country~~ the US will suddenly have no money.
The only way you can help increase wages is to reform ~~your~~the US voting system, so you can reform ~~your~~ the minimum wage.
You will never be able to vote with your wallet out of this one.
Surprise, suprise, in Australia, the minimum wage is okay (not fantastic, but you can live on it), and we don't tip (or at least, the vast majority of transactions never attract a tip. In hospitality venues there is a tip jar, that's it).
It's all about how far you look into the future.
If you look into the future by 20 years, then yes, not tipping is the best way to improve the average wages of servers, and in fact the wages would probably rise to match exactly the loss in tippings.
But if you look at only the next 3 months, wages might not rise quickly enough to compensate the losses through tipping, and that puts servers in a (temporary) hardship.
So, it's all about whether you're far-sighted or short-sighted.
Unfortunately as this very thread shows, a lot of Americans are mindbogglingly not in agreement about that. Which explains a lot about the current predicament of the country.