ID: line drawing of an upright bunny with a black bandana tied around their neck, holding a lit match in their mouth like you might a toothpick. The text says “we can’t just vote fascism away, the time has come to disobey. (be brave!)”

  • Euphorazine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    15 days ago

    If wait staff stop getting tips, eventually they will strike or quit and the restaurants will have to change their model. My solidarity exists that if they strike then I won’t shop there until they agree to a compromise. I don’t see how the existence of the US’s unique tipping culture is our responsibility.

    • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      15 days ago

      So your solution is to starve those already struggling, instead of support them and together taking the fight directly to the employer, or even better, to the political establishment?

      That’s a really gross and privileged take. Do the people in your vicinity a favour and don’t eat out, they don’t deserve to have to wait on someone who would rather see them starve before offering any support or even solidarity.

      E: I’ve got it now - yours is the liberal version of pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

      • Euphorazine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        15 days ago

        That is fighting with the employer. Tipping is what the employers want. That’s why my idea of “disobeying” was that this is when the movement to end US tipping culture makes sense. Europe has restaurants and they don’t have a tipping culture.

        I don’t get why if I don’t tip that I’m the one starving the employee, and not the employer.