• Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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    10 months ago

    It has already become your culture, like it or not. Whether you tip or not, employer has to make up the different if the tip doesn’t add up to the minimum wage, so you’re essentially subsidising the employer as of now. Fixing the minimum wage will not get rid of tipping culture either, and exploitative employer knows that, so they will continue to pay the bare minimum and expect the customer to foot the bill.

    I wonder if everyone reaction will change if we change “Tipping” to “Subsidising”, because that’s what the current status quo are.

    • Dojan@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      This hits the nail on the head. Exploitative employers will always only pay the absolute minimum they can get away with. If you’re going to have a federally mandated minimum wage, then that wage will need to be adjusted frequently.

      Has it been adjusted frequently?

      In my country we don’t have a minimum wage. Wage ranges are determined by the market and negotiations with unions. It gets really easy to figure out which employers do the bare minimum and which don’t.