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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -4 points 10 months ago

The barista shakes his head in disgust

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.

[-] piecat@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Leg@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Corpos and their willingness to weaponize empathy is pretty fucking evil.

[-] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 11 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] turbulentMagma@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, that somebody is their boss.

[-] prayer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

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.

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