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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
I suspect we just have different ways of seeing the issue as well as different ethics. The way I see it - long story made short - if you don't want to pay your employees a living wage then you should have to do it yourself. I see all the looking down upon them and the disrespect for their labor as just a way to justify and rationalize paying them less (iow, to exploit them).
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Your view assumes they are "exploiting employees" which is a wildly subjective concept. I know waiters at high end restaurants who make a killing. 100K a year. I know people that think they are being exploited no matter what you pay them or not matter what the circumstances... Just ask any teen who's being asked to clean up his/her own crap or take out the garbage.
I am not in the business of paying other peoples employees. If someone sells coffee for $5.00 a cup, that's my obligation. I order it, they give it to me. Everything beyond that is on the individual.
If you want to run around throwing money at people all day long to clear your conscience, that's fine. But just to do that because you feel any minimum wage job should be paying a livable wage? That's not me. I tip for people who give great service and where tipping is customary. I don't go around throwing money at people out of pity.
BTW... i checked my lunch bill for today. $19.00. I tipped $4.00. They always go out of their way to take care of me, I acknowledge it and show my appreciation for the effort. But I don't "owe" them something just because they might be trying to turn a low wage job into a career, that's on them.