emmanuel_car comments on World Cup tourists aren’t leaving tips

World Cup tourists aren’t leaving tips — and NYC restaurants are fighting back (nypost.com)

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The World Cup games at MetLife Stadium are bringing in roughly 1.2 million soccer fans from around the globe to NYC, and restaurants are raking in big bucks — except the tipping.

[–] emmanuel_car@fedia.io 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Why is the obligation on the customer to ensure the employee is paid a fair wage, and not the employer and/or government?

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Exactly. It shouldn't be.

But, the reason is classism and racism.

The servant is beneath the owner class. That's what it boils down to. Since, here in the US for sure (but not exclusively), black people in particular have been that servant class along with women, of course the owner class wants to pay them nothing.

Since it serves the same interests to have the working class kept in their place as well, shifting the obligation on them means that a majority of the "servants" will be pissed at their fellow working class neighbors instead of the ruling class. It's a win-win. So the laws were shaped to keep that in place, while pretending to help by establishing a bare minimum.

It's bullshit, and always has been, though it was an improvement over having no minimum wage at all

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