• Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Would fucking love it if we just got rid of tipping all together. Employers -not customers- should be responsible for providing employees good pay.

    Factor the difference into up front price of the food/service and be done with it.

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      8 months ago

      Couriers (DoorDash, GrubHub, UberEats, etc.) are not employees. They are contractors.

      There is no minimum wage for contractors. The base pay for these services don’t quite cover the $0.655 per mile that the IRS allows drivers to claim in travel expenses. The only money these drivers actually take home is customer tips.

      If you, as a customer, do not believe in tipping couriers directly, that’s perfectly fine, so long as you DO NOT use these services. As these drivers operate almost exclusively on tips, using these services without tipping is socially equivalent to begging in the streets.

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        8 months ago

        As these drivers operate almost exclusively on tips, using these services without tipping is socially equivalent to begging in the streets.

        Imagine a system so broken you say shit like this lol.

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    8 months ago

    It’s also bullshit that tipped workers rarely pay taxes on the vast majority of their earnings. We’re subsiding their wages, access to infrastructure, and social services.

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      8 months ago

      Lmao this has got to be the most misplaced anger ever. You’re mad at people that don’t even make minimum wage aren’t paying taxes on the maybe $35k a year? How about the billionaires that basically don’t pay taxes? Maybe we should deal with that first.