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I think (hope) the expectation is to eventually increase wages and prices and phase out tips altogether. Tip culture has gone insane...even my home inspector's
by silisili 2y ago
I think (hope) the expectation is to eventually increase wages and prices and phase out tips altogether. Tip culture has gone insane...even my home inspector's last invoice has a tip line!
- ribosometronome 2y agoNot taxing tips will increase the reliance on them rather than remove it.
- silisili 2y agoAbsolutely. The article in question is about how it runs counter to increasing said wages instead, and the comment I'm replying to I think is saying if we raise wages tips will raise. Which is true, short term.
- Matticus_Rex 2y agoI mean, wages have been increasing. Legislated wages are a vanishingly small portion of earned wages, except in the states with the highest minimum wages relative to market rates (and then usually only in the least-developed areas in those states, which is also where those legislated wages are likely to cause unemployment).
- jandrewrogers 2y agoMinimum wage is already $20/hr where I live. Tips can approximately double that. There is no version of the world where employees will willing give up those tips and no restaurant can afford a $40/hr minimum wage. This is just a one-way ratchet on employment costs, not a plausible way to eliminate tipping.
- jen20 2y ago> no restaurant can afford a $40/hr minimum wage. Of course they can: increase prices accordingly (I'm not commenting on what a reasonable wage for serving is, just that tipping is a bad way to get to that wage). It's not like customers don't have to consider the cost of the mandatory tipping bullshit when you consider where to eat and whether you can afford it in any case.