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- jncfhnb 2y agoReally feel like point number two weakens your overall point here
- xingped 2y agoThat businesses are allowed to surprise you with unexpected fees is a negative thing. How can you interpret it otherwise?
- gruntbuggly 2y agoDon't you just go out to eat knowing the price is going to be 20% higher after tip? I can understand the desire for predictability, but menu prices are artificially low as they don't account for labor. If tipping were 'abolished' food service prices would have to rise 10-20% across the board to compensate.
- jncfhnb 2y agoIt’s just kind of silly to say “we have a tipping culture” in the same argument as “we just illegally deported a guy to El Salvador”
- redserk 2y agoCome for the menial and absurd, stay for the flagrant anti-constitutional (in spirit) issues.
- flowerthoughts 2y agoService charge is a weird thing. Normally, I'd expect a volume discount if I create bigger business for someone. Restaurants decided that's not how it works. If someone with experience could explain why 1x6 people should be charged a higher price than 6x1 people, I am curious.
- gruntbuggly 2y agoBig tables are way more work for back of house as they bottleneck the kitchen with a bunch of simultaneous tickets. A large table demands more attention, but then you also end up with a larger bill on which customers are then less to add a tip. They can also decrease margin on shared plates.
- ta1243 2y agoThe OP was talking the "leader of the free world" You are talking about America That's two very different things
- redczar 2y agoLeader of the free world almost always refers to the U.S. President or the U.S. itself depending on context.
- redczar 2y agoI’ll add a few more freedoms. 1. Can’t walk about drinking a beer. 2. Can’t carry too much cash or it’s at risk of being confiscated. 3. Criminalization of walking. https://illinoislawreview.org/print/vol-2017-no-3/the-criminalization-of-walking/ https://illinoislawreview.org/print/vol-2017-no-3/the-crimin... 4. Pretty much have to own a car in most places. 5. Thousands of polling stations closed since the Voting Rights Act was gutted. 6. Federal politics held hostage by low population states. It’s insane that North Dakota has slightly less federal power than Texas. 7. Not even the House of Representatives has proportional representation.
- jancsika 2y agoRegarding #2 through #7: they are all true and important. I'm aware of different efforts over the years to address some of them, but they are all definitely active problems. Regarding #1-- is it possible you have a drinking problem?
- fragmede 2y agoyou buy a coca cola and walk 50 feet from one venue to the next and nobody bats an eye, but you do that with a twisted tea and suddenly people are asking you if you suffer from alcoholism
- hackable_sand 2y agoOr cigarettes/weed, for instance.
- tverbeure 2y ago> Regarding #1-- is it possible you have a drinking problem? You don't have to be an alcoholic (I don't even drink) to agree that with OP that #1 is an arbitrary reduction of freedom. Especially when walking around with a gun is totally fine. Which one has a larger potential of killing somebody? (And before you make some other ridiculous insinuation, we're talking here about walking, not driving.)
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- stackedinserter 2y agoAs someone from totalitarian regime, I can say you clearly don't appreciate freedoms that you have.
- redserk 2y agoThere is not a binary choice between America or a totalitarian regime. As an American, I recognize there are systems that can make us less free and I want to call them out in hopes that we will eventually address these issues so we have a more free society. Various countries have laws to prevent at least some subset of the issues I’ve raised.