• FuzzyRedPanda@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    Customers are NOT punishing staff by refusing to tip.

    Our school teachers all did a great job at getting us to blame other students when when one student did something bad, and the teacher punished all of us for it. My teachers did this gaslighting bullshit many times when I was in school. And now a whole new generation of adults are perpetuating the cycle. But it’s wrong.

    The restaurant owner is the one to blame for poor wages. The owner will say that the restaurant cannot afford to stay open otherwise. This is probably true. Many – if not most – restaurants in america cannot afford to exist unless they effectively steal wages from their workers. We either need legislation to fix this, or we need to let these restaurants die.

    • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      He is the one to blame lol, we all agree.

      When you go to the restaurant, pay the food (owner) but not the waiter, you are playing right into the owners game (who is to blame).

      So congrats on supporting the assholes creating this economic problem (they can’t run a profitable business). Next youre going to tell me human traffickers are the assholes buuut people should just stopped getting trafficked and leave, so that human trafficking stops being a thing. Because power dynamics have nothing to do with this of course.