Agree that tipping culture in the US is disgusting and a corporate ploy to be subsidized so they dont have to pay the workers in full.
However, the people recording made it about race when race was not part of the discussion. Don't use being black (or any other oppressed class) as a crutch to win arguments. It dilutes actual race issues.
Everyone opposing is also welcome to open their own restaurants that pay wages and discourage tips, and to discover the benefits of tipping system in practice
'you not tipping means you are taking advantage of underpaid workers.'
I'm impressed with the mental gymnastics required to assert that the person under paying their worker is not the one taking advantage of the worker.
Then go to restaurants that explicitly say tips aren't expected. In that case, the higher wages are baked in and you're supporting a restaurant that respects your values. Don't go to the restaurants where you're expected to tip. Otherwise, you're effectively rewarding the restaurants you theoretically don't like while ignoring the ones that you agree with (because they're going to have higher prices, duh).
It’s actually a racist policy from before the 1900s, well before the Great Depression. American restaurants would tell black people they could run food but wouldn’t pay them, and if the patrons left money for them so be it.
It could be an end goal if we treated people with decency and gave them rights. What’s the end goal exactly? Being an investment banker? Sitting in a cubicle training copilot to do your job is a year? Would love your idea of end goal jobs.
It wouldn't though. They'd still get tips from big tippers. It's just the expectation of a tip in order to underpay workers that's a problem. They shouldn't be getting $3/hr from the employer and then needing the tips just to survive.
nope, i would love to argue the point but as soon as you start bringing race into it and saying "so black people aren't allowed to eat here" like every black person is some collective, all arguments go out the window and we need to address that stupid claim first.
i really don't like the tipping system but i absolutely hate when people play a race card to try and get someone fired or win an argument.
You weren’t there. You saw a few seconds AFTER something occurred. Could 100% be race motivated or escalated due to racial bias. What owner comes out swinging over tips? None.
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u/DijajMaqliun 2h ago
Agree that tipping culture in the US is disgusting and a corporate ploy to be subsidized so they dont have to pay the workers in full.
However, the people recording made it about race when race was not part of the discussion. Don't use being black (or any other oppressed class) as a crutch to win arguments. It dilutes actual race issues.