(yeah i know leftbook is generally bad and no i didn't expect anything better but still)

Yes, employers should be paying delivery drivers way more instead of other working-class people making up the difference. Yes, the US system of tipping and the fact that service workers rely so heavily on tips is fucked up. No, that doesn't give you an excuse to not tip the person who's bringing you your treats.

Multiple people called this meme "ableist" and "classist" :agony-shivering: and even more are saying "delivery driving's way easier than making the food and sometimes they deliver it to the wrong place!!! so they don't deserve to be paid more!"!!

If your arguments sound exactly the same as a chud's, you are not a leftist, you are a propaganda mouthpiece for billionaires that would love to see you drop dead. Shut the actual fuck up you PMC radlib swine. /rant

  • LibsEatPoop3 [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Didn’t know tipping was related to the Great Depression goddamn. Would love to learn more if you have any resources.

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      3 years ago

      Ok so I found this . (at work so i dont have a lot of time to vet it)

      Apparently like most things wrong with america, it traces back to slavery:

      Well that movement, which came right around the time of the emancipation of the slaves, was squashed by the restaurant industry, which argued that they should have the right to hire newly freed slaves and not pay them anything as valueless people and essentially let them live on customer tips. And so many of the first tipped workers in the United States were former slaves…. And this idea was codified into the first minimum wage law that passed in 1938 as part of the New Deal…. We went from a zero-dollar minimum wage in 1938 to a whopping $2.13 an hour, which is the current federal minimum wage for tipped workers in the U.S.

      :john-brown:

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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      3 years ago

      that's the story of it anyway, i don't have any resources at hand, it definitely could be urban legend.

      But as i've heard it told, restaurants couldn't afford wages for workers so they started letting them keep tips as a means of income and that's where the sentiment that tips were necessary and not just for "extra good service" grew and then they just held on to it and never wanted to bring wages back up, so they've always paid like half the minimum wage.

      looks like it was slavery

      Everyone my age made like 2 bucks an hour at some point working for applebees lol