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Choosing Beggars
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I live in a culture where tipping is not expected. For most of my life, there really wasn't a way to tip, unless perhaps when paying in cash. Which almost nobody has done in decades.
If I got shitty service, I would tell the management. I don't remember ever having to do that. It turns out that people can behave without people waving a bunch of bills in front of their eyes.
The issue with tips in USA is that they're not used to reward good service, but the people getting tipped literally need them to live, cause they aren't getting paid enough with their base salary.
That is indeed a horrible thing, and very understandable that not giving them that is offending.
So businesses need to just keep increasing payroll because the government let's inflation run wild? At what point do we draw the line? If $30 an hour ends up not covering cost of living do we just raise it to $40? If businesses can't keep up they should probably close, leaving more workers without a job. Hyperbole for sure, but hope you get the point.
If your business can't afford to pay workers a living wage, it doesn't deserve to exist. Full stop.
A business cannot exist without its employees and if its employees can't afford to live on the salary it pays them, then it shouldn't continue operating.
If people can't make cost of living then yeah. Employees without homes or transportation probably arent ideal.
And businesses should scale their workforce as possible, and if no solution works then yeah, they would need to close.
I wouldn't really be as concerned with a business succeeding as I am with people being able to support themselves with their wages.
So your solution is to just keep paying workers more and somehow businesses will figure out how to magically make money appear rather than fixing the problem of prices continually increasing? Seems kind of short sighted. You should be concerned with a business being able to succeed because that means families are getting fed. What happens when no business can afford one employee? We all just starve? We should be trying to fix the source of the problem, not the symptom.
Spoken like somebody who knows nothing about economics. If your economy is growing, so are wages, so are costs, so are prices. No inflation = no growth. That's why the US Fed targets 2% inflation. Below that, it tries to stimulate the economy. Above that it tries to slow it down. So prices are always going up and so are wages. That's how it works in all the non-tipped industries, why the f should it be different for restaurants?
And that's the problem. If I need to tip for the service workers to get enough money to live, then it's on me to make the business successful by your definition, which doesn't sound like the business is really succeeding. It's succeeding because I've chosen to tip the right amount. I'm not going to withhold somebody's wages just because service was poor: they need to feed their family. Let's cut this "do a good enough job and I'll tip good enough" bullshit out and make sure we're actually feeding families?
Ownership class perspective right here
Cool story. You got a rebuttal for anything mentioned or do you just say things that are irrelevant?
Calls it as I sees it
So you got nothing. Understood.