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In reply to the discussion: "I don't tip." [View all]The Magistrate
(95,303 posts)Your workers depend on charity from your customers. That your customers are decent people and understand you yourself do not pay your workers adequately hardly absolves you from the charge you do not provide adequate pay, or set at naught the statement of fact that your income is in good part comprised of the difference between an adequate wage for your workers and the wage you actually pay. Your claim about prices is nonesense, because when people go to a restaurant they expect to pay a tip to the servers, and count that into the cost of the meal, and come prepared to pay it, or else they do not come at all.
Your cant about 'profits lead to jobs' is stale, well past its best used by date. Again, you do not challenge the fact that profit is the difference between the value workers produce and the wage they are paid. You seem to take it for granted that someone should be positioned to take this difference himself, and that if he was not able to take this difference for himself, nothing would be done by anyone else. The absurdity of the claim is obvious, when it is stated plainly. The objection people have is the resolve of many in a position to do so to take so much that those who actually produce the value are driven to a subsistence level. That is what you are defending, and everyone here sees that very clearly.