Comment on Tipping culture npcs

• SkippingRelax@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is it fair for the servers not to be paid by their employers?

  I’m at a loss mate. I’m having these conversations here on lemmy about us-unique problems that have pretty straightforward solutions (and note that I am not saying easy, but pretty obvious how there is one way to fix them, and pretty much one way only). All I hear back is weird stuff, of course it’s not fair to be paid different by locals than non locals but how did we even get down this rabbit hole? Everyone here seems to agree that tipping is stupid, that servers should unionise or at least ask for better treatment. Wtf, did Rosa Parker spend time arguing about how black people in some state had it worse than other states?

  The same seems to happen when discussing about gun control. Not easy, what worked in other countries like Australia wouldn’t work here. But we need guns to defend ourselves from gun nuts. What about trans women that need to defend themselves (a real convo I had with someone, probably still in my comments history).

  You know what? In other countries waiters are paid minimum wages, we barely suffer from tips issues, have universal healthcare, guns are pretty hard to obtain, mass shooting are a once in a century issue, our kids don’t do drills at school or have to go through metal detectors, white collar jobs have paid sick leave on top of 20-35 holidays days a year and if you need to fight nazis you can hit them with a reo bar. I’m not bragging, it’s sad to see how bad the US has it and even when discussing with people that agree in general with you (you seem to be in favour of unions etc) there’s always an obstacle or something that “non Americans don’t understand”, as i said in other comments you can wait for politicians or your employer to give you more rights or money but that rarely (never?) works.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, of course it’s not fair. That’s exactly why I tip. Because it’s not fair for them and they need help.

    I can’t change that for them. They probably can’t even change it.

    That’s just not how America works unfortunately. America is totally beholden to corporate interests.

    Also, saying “they do it in other countries” as if that means it’s possible in the U.S. when other countries have totally different laws is silly. Australia was able to get rid of guns because they don’t have guns enshrined in their founding document.

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    • SkippingRelax@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wrong Australia was able to get rid of guns because everyone was shocked about what happened with a mass shooting, had the right to bear firearms been enshrined in the constitution there would have been a discussion about making a change to it, hasn’t the American constitution ever been amended? Any more reasons why changes can’t happen there? You guys fucking overcame slavery and black people managed to get equal rights (I am sure a few naysayers in the sixties were sceptical about that). Give yourselves more credit

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes. The American Constitution has been Amended. It takes a 2/3 majority of congress and ratification by three-fourths of the states.

        Which is why amendments are almost never passed.

        Again, you really don’t understand how laws work here.

        The 27th Amendment, the most recent one to be passed, was about congressional salaries. It had been proposed in 1791. It passed in 1992.

        And you think we could realistically get guns out of the U.S. Constitution?

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