And perhaps has exposed some otherwise normal-appearing people for the idiots that they are.
It’s been a decade without an increase in the minimum wage...
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Federal minimum wage increases should be tied (annually) to the annual top line (not core) inflation rate reported by the BLS. This will do two major things. First, it will allow for those on the minimum wage to receive raises and shut up the overall ridiculousness behind things like $15 an hour or $25 an hour minimum wage.
Second, it will draw attention to the horseshit numbers reported by the BLS that state - absurdly - that inflation is actually low and put pressure on revising the inflation reading to a more realistic level. By pegging it to the top line reported number and not the core, food, medical and other daily needs will be included.
One of the reasons you see no wage inflation is because a large percentage of the population is paid on a rate that never moves. Duh.
Second, it will draw attention to the horseshit numbers reported by the BLS that state - absurdly - that inflation is actually low and put pressure on revising the inflation reading to a more realistic level. By pegging it to the top line reported number and not the core, food, medical and other daily needs will be included.
One of the reasons you see no wage inflation is because a large percentage of the population is paid on a rate that never moves. Duh.
I worked a minimum wage job to buy my first car in high school. In one summer I was able to buy a car and pay for registration and insurance. There’s no way a high school kid can do that today.
And forget college. The idea of working your way through college isn’t even possible anymore.
And forget college. The idea of working your way through college isn’t even possible anymore.
I agree.Can't even get take out orders without tipping these days
Oh, you brought my pizza to the counter and expect a tip?
I agree.Can't even get take out orders without tipping these days
https://www.dailydot.com/irl/tiktok-tipping-culture-drive-thru/
A TikToker is calling out “tipping culture” and explaining how they felt uncomfortable while picking up her order in a fast-food drive-thru.
User Justice Russell (@realistic.recovery), who often shares content about eating disorder recovery, posted a video from her car after picking up chicken tenders and fries from a local burger place.
“I’m sorry to say this, but tipping culture has gotten out of control,” she said. “I get up to the pay window, and she’s like, ‘How much do you want to tip?’”
The question threw the TikToker for a loop as she wasn’t expecting to tip a fast food restaurant while in the drive-thru line. She certainly wasn’t expecting to be asked point-blank if she was going to do so.
“I was like, ‘Oh no, not today,’ and then I felt really uncomfortable. But like, homegirl, what am I going to tip you for? I’m in the fucking drive-thru,” she said in the video.
Tipping is a hotly debated issue in the U.S., where front-of-house restaurant workers are legally allowed to be paid below minimum wage, forcing them to rely on customer tips.
Russell said she always tips 20% “even if the service is bad” for services at sit-down restaurants and nail salons. But tipping at a drive-thru crossed a line for her.
“I drove myself… to avoid tipping a delivery driver,” she said.
While TikTok viewers are usually prepared to blast bad tippers, people agreed with her that “tipping culture” is spiraling into something uncomfortable and inconvenient, all because employers just aren’t paying people enough.
“I went to a self serve frozen yogurt place and she asked for a tip and I was like uhhhhhhh you’re just standing behind a register??” @meepmeep46 recalled.
“I have a rule, if I didn’t sit down, I won’t tip,” explained @sarahsalami4. “We tip for the service they provide us. It’s getting out of hand really.”
Another viewer claimed that someone got mad that she didn’t tip when she ordered a pizza for pick-up, and another insisted that take-out orders should never be tipped.
Russell ultimately suggested that the place she went to should “literally just charge me the extra $2 for my meal, stop making me feel uncomfortable,” but several viewers had an even better suggestion.
“How about rich people just pay their workers fairly instead of putting it on other working class people,” wrote @tylerlamanna.
Putting the minimum wage aside, the biggest problem with your example is the price of college tuitions. They’re out of control for the simple fact they know students can get loans.
You want to forgive student debt, start with the colleges. Have them kick back a few million each before asking taxpayers.
lol.....
"hey guise, what if we have these dumb plebs tip the robots?"___greedflation causing cunt "capitalist" probably.
Absolutely. I'm all for forgiveness of debt if it comes from the universities. But to bail out student loans without hitting the universities is just another way of providing free tax dollars to universities. That's all it is. They'll never be incentivized to get rid of stupid idiot degrees that don't prepare kids for a career if they get a roundabout bail in.
And the kids that get their loans forgiven, will never feel any near term pressure to take a crappy job until they can get a job in their chosen career path because they don't have to. Meanwhile I have to wait 15 minutes in the MCD drive-thru for a cup of coffee because they can't hire anyone.