If the goal was to insure that the wait staff made the same amount as cooks and dishwashers, why don’t they all make minimum wage?

Oh, so he’s KNOWINGLY evil, that’s much better

That doesn’t surprise me one bit. It also doesn’t make my job more interesting, so... a-Kinjafightin’ we go, nonetheless.

I’m not sure where you’re getting all this stuff about sympathy and desserts. The most generous guess I have is good ol’ projection, i.e. your own ideas are based entirely on vague emotions, therefore, nobody else has taken calculus yet, either.

None of that was an appeal to emotion. It’s about the empirical differences in the capacities of actors to access different labor markets based on the existing distribution of capital, and how that causes the employer/employee relationship to hinge almost entirely on externalities. But you don’t know those words, so I…

You should probably read up on it before getting into conversations about it then, dontcha think? Keep you from looking like so much of an idiot all the time! (well, it’d be a step in that direction, at least)

And the server’s wage is supplemented, by choice, with tips and his/her wage is not what you listed as a result.

Oh, my god. No. It’s not about the cost of living. It’s about how market friction affects different actors differently, or, in layman’s terms, IT’S HARDER TO BE POOR THAN TO BE RICH, BECAUSE POOR PEOPLE HAVE LESS MONEY THAN RICH PEOPLE

Think back to pre-algebra. That isn’t actually addition, is it? It’s multiple functions expressed as one by using non-real numbers (in this case, a negative). You know, because of the Additive Inverse Property?

And yet, shockingly, despite the diversity of situations in which it can be applied, arithmetic tells us that addition makes things bigger every time!

There are plenty of restaurant jobs all over the US ... Geography doesn’t effect [compensation].

Owners have no incentive to “steal tips” and no one has been able to explain why on Earth they would ever want to do so. It doesn’t make sense.

Etiquette says yes, you tip the server regardless of someone else’s performance. Economics says yes as well. It’s shocking that you’ve made it all the way to the advanced age of 19 (I’m assuming based on the exact nature of your edgelordery) without learning what tipping is.

No, just the highly specific problem of people not making enough money

You haven’t met Kinja’s resident pro-Clinton power-bigot? How I envy you...

Worse: I know advanced economics. Supply... wait for it... doesn’t always meet demand! Not all market actors are exactly literally equal to each other! Blacklisting, collusion, and price-fixing all exist in real life! Geography affects costs, in fact, markets aren’t perfectly frictionless at all! Is your mind…

So the enemy of your enemy is... always you? Even when it’s... like, somebody else? That’s a confusing notion. You know there are more than two ideas about politics in the world, right?

He did not read the whole article.

But this tipping system is totally fucked. I always thought that tips were shared anyway. I’m just learning they’re not and it’s totally changed my mind on tipping.

LOL, yup, because that’s a thing workers can do in a capitalist society: just quit and move to a different employer if the current one acts unscrupulously! Foolproof plan you got there, bud. Fire ‘em all and let the free market sort ‘em out, amirite?