> laughable minimum wages (specially for the "mandatory tip" jobs) I couldn't believe this when I first heard of it: Some (or most?) states have a "different m

> laughable minimum wages (specially for the "mandatory tip" jobs) I couldn't believe this when I first heard of it: Some (or most?) states have a "different minimum" (? yeah ..) wage for certain types of service jobs (waiters, etc) that exclude some arbitrary amount they are supposed to get as "tips". If that's not something that's purely beneficial to the business and puts a burden on the individual person, I don't know what. It makes the whole concept of "minimum wage" laughable by setting an impossibly low one for a certain class of jobs ("tip money" isn't guaranteed so you can't count it as part of the minimum wage, the guarantee is the whole point). And then it turns into a situation where the customers (nicely sidestepping the business) are made to be felt responsible for the servants to make "minimum wage", but they aren't responsible at all, it's charity.