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The one that IMMEDIATELY popped into my head was Disturbed’s Down with the Sickness, but that’s a no-go due to the f-bombs in the chunk of it I’d want to use: profanity is not allowed in the final presentation. If there’s a parody version that replaces the ‘mother’ and ‘fucker’ with something more G rated, I could probably use that.

There is always the radio edit.

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Obvious plan to use AI chat logs for ads was obvious.

Businesses are trying to expand tipping culture into jobs that were not previously reliant on tips, and those are the steps on the way.

Is it the vast majority of their income like wait staff in the US?

No? Then tipping is optional there and has nothing to do with what Trotsky did which was in the US when 100% of their income came from tips or current US waitstaff where the vast majority of their income still comes from tips.

Nothing, absolutely nothing. There are many other things that impact me directly that take up my time.

But while doing nothing about changing the laws around tipping I am also not punishing the wait staff by refusing to engage in the current system to their detriment. My criticism is leveled at the people who stiff wait staff while doing nothing to fix the system.

People were able to make food at home or get food from places that didn’t involve sitting down and making tiped wait staff serve someone for free in 1900.

You don’t have fast food, counter service locations, street vendors, or any of the other food sources that don’t involve sitting down and being served by someone whose primary income comes from tips?

Tipping culture refers to having jobs where a significant or vast majority of their income is tips. Like 50%-95% of their income is tips, so tipping is expected. Tipping culture in the US is the culture where the meme takes place.

It is not referring to tipping as an option, which is what tipping should be.

Your point is like saying if you refuse to pay for a meal then you didn’t get it for free because other people paid for their food. It is like saying that not paying overtime is fine because because they get their base wage.

Your ‘technically they get minimum wage’ ignores the whole point of tipping being tied directy to the service being provided that I was trying to point out it was fundamentally incorrect.

Yeah, I thought there was something more to it and am disappointed.

Not tipping punishes the wait staff by reducing their expected source of income that is tied to their labor with zero impact on tipping culture. Trying to justify that with ‘but mah minimum wage’ is just adding insult to injury.

People who refuse to tip on principle, but still go to places based on tipping culture are assholes. Trying to justify it is just doubling down.

If you want to punish the business owner, boycott the business. If you want tipping culture to end, work on legislation that allows it to exist.

I don’t stream music. Mostly listen to rips of all the CDs I collected over the decades plus stuff I saved over the years in the spirit of recording music off the radio, which is perfectly legal.

It means I don’t really have much new music, but never was super excited about music when it is new. The benefit of being behind the curve is the crap gets filtered out!

That is an awful argument.

“Hey guys, lets punish the workers so that they have to make change happen instead of maybe taking the initiative to get the laws changed.”

I tip when I go to places that expect tips because my stiffing individual wait staff isn’t going to change anything. If I was going to ‘protest’ I would just boycott sit down restaurants. At this point I only go if someone else really wants to.

There are tons of place to get good food that doesn’t involve tipping and I can just make food at home too. Counter service restaurants might have a pity jar for tips, but the business is still paying their staff and not expecting 95% of wages to come from that jar.

You do understand that the federal minimum wage for tipped positions is about $2 and they only have to bring it up to $7 if almost nobody tips, right?

The employer not paying more because the wages are primarily tips isn’t as bad as someone who refuses to tip but still expects the same labor. The employer expects someone else to pay for the labor, the non-tipping customer expects free labor.

Wait staff that stick around do so because the employer treats them well enough and their customer base doesn’t try to fight tipping culture by punishing the wait staff.

They do it based on averages, so when they get shorted by a customer then that work is free and the business only has to make up something if their two week average including tips is under minimum wage.

If Trotsky refused to go to those restaurants he would be right. By going he was effectively treating them as slaves by expecting unpaid labor as he knew that was their source of income.

Sure, some US states and other countries do have some kind of reasonable base pay, but when the expectation is that they will receive tips for the vast majority of their labor then the labor they provide to individual customers is unpaid if they don’t get a tip.

Do keep in mind that a large number of US states only require businesses to pay two bucks and change per hour for tipped workers unless their overall income including tips is higher that seven bucks and change per hour. If they aren’t getting tips they are not really being paid.

If someone refuses to tip while everyone else does they are getting something for free at everyone else’s expense while participating in the system they say that they oppose.

The fascists are considered essential and will still be working whether or not they are being paid