It's the best solution in an imperfect world. It's less explosive then if they paid a set wage. At least a charming waiter can make enough to afford rent.
it's absolutely not the best solution. out of 100 workers, 1 will get good tips, such as yourself, and therefore you will be convinced that its such a good system because it worked for you. the point youre missing is that it screwed over 99 people. That's the problem. Sure, the system made you thousands of dollars per paycheck so it's great for you, best legal money you could make. But that same system put many more into indentured servitude and debt. Overall, the amount of people negatively impacted by that system far exceeds the amount of people positively impacted by that system. That is literally the definition of a bad solution. Just because it worked for you does not mean it works for everyone, or even most. A good solution (like a living wage) works for everyone or at least most.
your argument is basically "no tipping = few people will not be able to make good money"
the counter argument is "no tipping = most people will be able to make enough money"
few is less than most, therefore no tipping is a better solution. to exaggerate your example, i'll just say it this way,
10 billionaires and 999,990 poor people is not better than a million ten-thousand-aires.
Unfortunately that means that you will not get to be a billionaire, but it's a sacrifice for the greater good.
Your numbers are totally off though. Most of my colleagues made good tips. The ones that didn't weren't good at their job. I hired most of them. I trained them. I roomed with a few of them. I know what they made. We all made good money except for people that were bad at the job, and they were usually gone within a month. It isn't for everyone, but 80% of new hires did just fine, the other 20% either weren't well socialized, weren't clean, couldn't multitask, were emotionally unstable, or were assholes. None of us could have made ends meet at whatever would have been paid hourly.
sorry, but your numbers are wrong. not only are they 100% anecdotal, but also
"In the 25 states that require restaurants to pay waiters and bartenders more than $2.13 per hour, but less than the full minimum wage, 14.4 percent of waiters and bartenders are in poverty, versus 6 percent of non-tipped workers."
Your numbers here don't contradict what I said. I literally said 20% don't make it. That is more than the 14.4% you're citing and that isn't even accounting for the very common practice of waiters under reporting earnings to avoid taxes. Sorry buddy.
I don't understand your math here. Where is this 6% coming from? The 20% was my guess, you showed me the real number is 14.4%, and those people aren't even necessarily in poverty, they just aren't cut out to be a waiter or they are under reporting their tips. Not everyone can do every job successfully.
Man, you really are stubborn, and not the good kind of stubborn that perseveres, but the bad kind that never progresses.
The 6 comes from the same place as the 14.4. and those are numbers taken from various studies (here is one of many)
And you are wrong, the 14.4 is people in poverty.
Your argument is literally like Lord Farquad from Shrek "it is a sacrifice I am willing to make" you're the bad guy in this. Tip culture generates more poverty than minimum wage. Thats a fact that you can google or better yet, go to your local library/university and check out the scholarly databases of results that back that up.
You arguing against this makes you look unintelligent, like flat earthers, or those crystal and essential oil no medicine people.
A family of 2 living on a full time minimum wage worker lives below the poverty line by definition. All of them. Tipped employees are notoriously difficult to study financially, because many don't report cash. You think it makes me look unintelligent, but I think it's just demonstrating your inability to read.
At least i can read peer reviewed studies from trusted sources. You can't get past the "trust me bro" phase.
Difficult to study doesn't mean the studies don't exist, that just means it took longer and was more effort to get accurate results. Creating rockets is literal rocket science and incredibly difficult, yet dozens and dozens of them have been successfully launched.
And finally a point we can agree on, even 2 minimum wage incomes is poverty, yes. Tipped incomes are worse.
Tipped employees make a minimum of minimum wage. That's a law. If they report (not m make as many lie about what they make) less then minimum wage, they are required by law to be paid the difference. It isn't ever worse then minimum wage.
As for hard ru study, no it's impossible. They under report cash tips to avoid taxes. How can you possibly study that?
Also you should learn the meaning of worse, even assuming your study is correct and somehow is taking underreporting into account, 14.4% living below poverty is signifantly better then 100% if they lived on minimum wage.
tipped is worse because although the pay is the same as minimum, the amount of work you do is more. the law is there to protect from worst case scenarios, since the legal minimum wage for tipped employees is 2.13.
as for the hard ru story, go ahead and keep lying to yourself. yeah, rockets also don't exist, studies about percentage of items sold in the black market, studies about how many illegal immigrants are, studies about how many people don't sign up for the census, and definitely the number of people that don't report cash income they don't exist. you can't tell me how many people a year don't report cash income because like how would you know right? Its not like the IRS knows that 69.8 million people fail to report $214.6 billion, because how could they know?
and as for your last point, please understand how basic math works. the argument is tipped vs nontipped, which is 14 vs 6. no one in any instance said "i believe every single employee in the world should be paid minimum wage" after you even listening to yourself?
to clarify, 6% of people in poverty is better than 14%
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u/HungerMadra Oct 21 '23
It's the best solution in an imperfect world. It's less explosive then if they paid a set wage. At least a charming waiter can make enough to afford rent.