We dug into how American tipping culture got so broken, and the fight to fix it.

It turns out that your tips are subsidizing the payrolls of multi-billion dollar chains, while they pay their workers under minimum wage.

It’s a system rooted in slavery, and pushed by a wealthy restaurant owners onto the rest of us.

But there’s a growing movement to change it.

  • Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    The workers need to stand up to their employers. As long as you have waiters defending tipping culture with “But I make more money like this” it will not change

    • queermunist she/her
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      1 year ago

      The workers don’t need you to bully them into standing up to their employers. That’s basically accelerationism - the idea that if the workers suffer enough they will be forced to fight back.