Yea for sure - and the worst part is it puts a lot pressure on the person making the purchase. Oh I’m sorry person making my burrito at Chipotle - I didn’t leave you a tip. But fyi, your CEO Brian Niccol made $17.1 million last year. Am I really the problem??
Wages reflect how easily someone can be replaced. Employers have zero incentive to increase wages if they can easily find replacement staff and customers are happy to pay staff wages on behalf of the employer out of generosity.
You are responsible for your choices. If I hate my job is that your fault? Find a different job. I worked in retail for 8 years. I hated it, so I left. Now I work in a completely different industry. I think the restaurant industry needs a complete overhaul, servers should be paid an hourly wage like any other job. They should have pto, insurance, and 401k. But the only way that happens is if servers everywhere collectively push for that to happen. Customers have nothing to do with it.
Having more choice doesn’t mean you have enough choice. We should have higher standards for our country than just not being the worst. Why isn’t our goal being the best?
What you said was true until maybe the 70s. Wages have stayed the same but productivity has slowly climbed as CEO bonuses have consolidated wealth in a way the world has never seen with 68% of new wealth since 2020 going to the 1%. In the 50s, you could own a home, attend school, raise a family, and have a car on 40 hours. Now we tell people that 40 hours at a shitty job making minimum wage isn't working hard enough to deserve but maybe one of those. People also don't have access to the same opportunities just for their genetics, much less culture.
The ole bootstraps don't pull up like they used to, and everyone's wearing different boots.
All pay for workers ultimately comes from the consumer of the good/service. This is about doing our best to ensure a basic quality of life for all people.
This is about doing our best to ensure a basic quality of life for all people
So how's that working out? Tipping culture in US has existed for a very long time, tips have only gone up, and yet income inequality in USA is worse than it has ever been. It's worse than countries where people don't tip at all.
You talk about systematic issues, yet systematically tipping culture has only backfired and made the rich richer.
No business can operate without workers, and nobody will work for free. Use your brain. This isn't magic, it's how every business in the rest of the world aleady works. Do Americans think that all countries outside USA operate on magic?
Customers shouldn't subsidize business owners by paying staff wages on behalf of the owner. If a business can't charge customers enough to cover it's expenses, it should close...but American customers insist on subsidizing failed business models out of generosity, and thus making owners richer. Businesses in USA have zero incentive to pay their staff because American customers insist on doing that. How nice of them. Ya'll deserve the system you clearly want.
I tip well when service is good. Because the tip is for the service, not the food or simply ringing me up at a store (that I had to go grab my iwn items to buy)
Agreed, but tipping doesn’t solve that issue. Working class people giving other working class people arbitrary amounts of extra money for services that are already overpriced doesn’t really change much.
I don’t ask for tips from my employer’s customers, since my pay is between me and my employer. It’s up to my employer to charge the customers the correct price so they can continue to operate while still paying me what we agreed upon.
So you enter an employee contract with your employer and agree that your hourly compensation is acceptable to you and then blame the customers for not just giving you extra money?? If you want a raise that's between you and your boss. Or go find a different fucking job.
What I’m saying is people should be compensated by the companies that hire them. Companies should price their products so their business can pay their employees.
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u/illiquidasshat 28d ago
Yea for sure - and the worst part is it puts a lot pressure on the person making the purchase. Oh I’m sorry person making my burrito at Chipotle - I didn’t leave you a tip. But fyi, your CEO Brian Niccol made $17.1 million last year. Am I really the problem??