unskilled labor

I hate that term. All labor is valuable.

It’s the reason some people make a whole career out of being a server

Ah, yes, painting working class people - usually women - as being greedy because they want to “have a career” (a.k.a. earn a livable wage).

Servers don’t make too much, billionaires do. All jobs should pay enough that you could continue to do them your whole life.

I can’t speak for those emoloyees, but since it seems like the pay structure seems designed to make tipping optional, I assume they’re anti-mandatory-tipping there

Yep. Continuing to patronize that establishment, whether or not you tip, perpetuates tipping culture.

Not true. There’s a restaraunt in my town (and not even a very large town!) that pays all staff the same (relatively decent) wage and splits any tips they do happen to get equally among all staff. Obviously people will still tip, because that’s the culture here, but if you didn’t tip it’s not like the staff won’t be paid at all.

Places like that are rare but they’re out there, and the principled thing to do would be to spend your money with establishments that are doing their best to be part of the solution.

It makes lots of sense when you realize that it makes more money for the owning class, so they like it a lot.

Also it got started right after slavery ended, so you can imagine who was getting told “sorry you didn’t make any money today, better luck tomorrow.”

Unless you have a degree or work a skilled trade, it’s pretty hard to find a job that out-earns serving. Most places, good servers and bartenders are actually making enough to live on (after tips), which you’d only get in retail if you’re management. (Sometimes not even then!)

There are plenty of ways to get faster table turn that don’t involve rushing your customers, like making sure the food is prepared quickly and accurately, or taking payment earlier so that customers can leave whenever they would like.

Obviously, yes, more tips makes more money than less-but-slightly higher tips, but a good server will manage to achieve both high quality and efficient service.

But yeah, everyone needs to make a livable wage, and tipping culture only helps the owning class.

As a server: I literally do care though. I love my regulars and it makes my day when they come in.

I’d still care just as much if I got paid a living wage, but like, don’t say we don’t care when many of us absolutely do.

Boycotting the restaraunt is the actual solution.

Not tipping just makes you an asshole.

Or, don’t eat places that don’t pay their workers

Because we’re an uneducated shithole, obviously 😝

That sounds eerily plausible 😥

It’s less of a revolution than it seems to be. Both parties have been doing awful things for a long time, Trump is just louder about it and more flagrant in his defiance of the other branches of government.

But it’s not “Trump is a fascist, unlike any president before him.” Trump is a fascist, but there have plenty of fascistic elements in the US goverment all along, and there have been other presidents like Trump in US history.

The system really is working exactly as intended.

Right???

It looks like it’s prepaid only

I don’t view language as a cultural heritage thing, just a communication protocol.

Language is absolutely political, a product of its specific environment, and there is a lot that can be communicated in one language that would be difficult in another. Erasing languages isn’t like no longer manufacturing a specific style of plug, instead it silences viewpoints and enforces the cultural hegemony of the dominant group.

There’s a reason fascists are fond of erasing the languages of the marginalized.

As an American, I don’t think people will support bike lanes even then