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    12 years ago

    Do you know that it’s having that effect? What kind of follow up interviews have you conducted to make sure people are getting the message and your not tipping is effective?

    So like I said, if you really believe you’re helping people by pushing them out of jobs you don’t approve of, consider abuse, false reporting and bullying as well. You’re really limiting your ability to force people out of jobs you don’t approve of if you only vote with your dollars.

    Step it up.

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      12 years ago

      I have already addressed this point and you ignored it entirely. So I’ll just requote this to make clear you are unable to provide an answer.

      I have yet to hear an actual argument, even a weak one, as to why an inconsistent unknown income with an unreasonably low base wage is better than a fixed and fair one. I’m always open to changing my position if providing a convincing argument though.

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        12 years ago

        So I never said any of that and I’m not arguing for it against it. It’s not the topic of our thread of discussion, which I’ll restate for you:

        If you don’t tip you’re a bad person.

        Not to get all uno reverse on you, but I never got a response to my reply directly to what you did say and what is the topic of our conversation which you claimed you addressed but I for the life of me cant find it so I’ll repeat it here:

        Do you know that it’s having that effect? What kind of follow up interviews have you conducted to make sure people are getting the message and your not tipping is effective?

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          12 years ago

          Tipping itself supports a system of tipping. So anyone who tips is in support of tipping. It’s very very simple.

          So if you don’t support the tipping system, you won’t tip. But you do support the system, and this tip.

          I don’t need to follow up on interviews to know that lowering the average amount of tips received will push people toward pressuring their employers for fair wages. It’s the obvious result.

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            12 years ago

            So you don’t know if what you’re doing is effective but you keep doing it.

            Maybe next time you have a nice big meal with drinks appetizers and digestif, after you pay the bill without tipping, ask your server if your not tipping every time you visit that restaurant has caused them to approach management about abolishing tipping or caused them to pursue a job you approve of.

            You could even make a list of jobs you think actually deserve their pay in case they ask you what jobs they should drop everything and pursue!

            It’s important to check that what you’re doing is having the intended effect, especially when you’re one of thousands of diners in even a small town and one of dozens of tables a server might have in a day.

            When your own own dollar-voting is dwarfed by the massive amount of cash sloshing around, it’s vital to check in, otherwise, you know, you’d only be harming your server by denying them part of their pay you’re responsible for.