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  • The standard federal minimum wage still applies. If tips aren’t enough to get you there then the employer has to make up the difference.

    Tips are literally a subsidy paid to your employer so that they don’t have to pay you (just the $2.13 federal tipped minimum wage).


  • Your advice would require people to drastically change their lives right now. Everything’s tipped.

    Telling people to stop tipping requires almost nothing from them.

    And yes, it will make things worse for the exploited workers - they’ll have to find new jobs if they’re not happy with their agreed-upon remuneration. But it’s this that will convince the employer to pay more - if they can’t attract staff they’ll have to offer more

    Stopping tipping also puts the burden where it should be. You are the one saying your pay isn’t enough (and thus need tipping) - you fight for it yourself.


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    6 months ago

    It’s so much nicer travelling in places where service workers are valued by their employers.

    I still support the anti-tipping people though - it’s the single best option they have to effect change. It’s something small, concrete, and moves things to the desired end-state.

    Stop tipping and donate the amount to community organizations fighting poverty instead.