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Re:Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Pov... by tyingq on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:18PM (#25354943)
I get why someone wouldn't like it. But it's not a battle you can fight at that scale. The wait staff get paid $2.13 an hour. They feel the pain, not the business or the American fetish meisters.
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Re:Coronavirus Could Push More Than 1B People to Extreme Pov... by cmdshiftf4 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @10:37PM (#25355032)
You're right and it would need collective action to rectify, and even then you'd encounter some not insignificant amount of those in the service industry who'd loathe a fair minimum wage in lieu of relying on tips as they'd see it as crippling their income.

How it should be and how it is are immensely detached, I think we can all agree on.

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