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I think that the history of tipping is more complex than that. My understanding is that at high end restaurants back in the day waitstaff paid the house for tab
by pacaro 8y ago
I think that the history of tipping is more complex than that. My understanding is that at high end restaurants back in the day waitstaff paid the house for tables, and their entire income was from tips.
That being said, I’d much rather society move towards the idea that every job pay at least a living wage
- jonny_eh 8y agoWhere did you hear that? Doesn't sound believable to me at all.
- smelendez 8y agoThat's still true in some tipped industries. Hairstylists and barbers pay to rent "a chair" in the salon, and strippers pay their clubs to dance for the night. If you go to a bar with "shot girls" who stroll around selling shots, they've often bought the booze from the bar to resell to you.
- sneak 8y agoLeave “society” out of it. All it would take is for the people you’re attempting to help choose to stop voluntarily accepting to work for less than a living wage. It’s not your or anyone else’s place to tell them that they can’t or shouldn’t be able to do that if they choose.
- chrisbennet 8y agoThat course of action would imply that they can get another job that pays a living wage.
- pacaro 8y agoYeah, I think about this too. What proportion of people working for less than living wage would have to do this before there was movement. Being the last person is easy, being among the first is really hard.