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  • aaa@lemmy.ziptoMildly Interesting@lemmy.world•Skip the Tips — Can You Escape the Tip Screen? (Game/Simulation)
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    1 month ago

    In the region of the world I’m from, waiter unions themselves are against tipping. The reasons I have heard are that

    1. wage negotiations should not happen between customers and employees
    2. the principle of everyone’s salary being enough to cover all costs of living
    3. neither customer nor employee will benefit from service staff having too low wages
    4. worker’s rights cannot practically be built using funds from tipping
    5. normalising tipping will be used by the employer as an argument to pay below liveable wages

    That being said, waiters are given a liveable wage here. And locals also sometimes tip for great service. But that’s just a bonus for the waiter, not the expectation.

    I would personally suggest you reevaluate your pro-tipping stance given the above, but I don’t know where in the world you’re from, nor how waiters are treated or paid there

  • aaa@lemmy.ziptoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•If you could add one book to the required reading curriculum for people under 18, what would it be?
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    2 months ago

    Thanks for the thoughtful response!

    I am an avid but slow reader. I think the main appeal for me to read many of the classic (western) books is so that I can get a better understanding of each author’s inspirations, which would hopefully finally help explain how we got to where we are today. But I think your answer is pulling me in the direction of starting with the books I want, and moving backwards in time for each book I want to delve further into, and then moving forwards when questions can’t be answered by the past.

    I read more about HTRB today and it seems totally fine to just skim a full book briefly, and decide it’s not for me. So I think I’ll use that as well.

    Thanks for mentioning HTRB!