What scares me is, this rate-a-human Black Mirror/MeowMeowBeenz dystopia - where we’re all assigned some sort of inescapable rating that can fuck-up our lives - seems not only possible but highly probable (as another commenter pointed out, the Chinese government is trying to implement something similar). There are…

Being an Australian, it took me a long time to realise that tipping is something Americans do so that servers don’t die broke. Over here, we just pay a living wage. Sometimes people tip, if the servers go above and beyond, and a lot of places have tip jars at the counter, which mostly operate as a convenient way to…

This is amazing. Keep doubling down. Here’s a fucking definition for you:

“Disrupt” = “insert myself into the chain so I can get a cut of the money without actually making anything better”

You can’t actually be this stupid. You can’t. This is an act or something. You’re trying to be funny. Right?

Okay, so...you can’t read? That’s the main issue here. You, (I’m assuming) a grown adult with a computer cannot read. Allow me to reword that sentence so your tiny brain can comprehend it. I said, “I do not tip 20% all of the time, in all circumstances. I tip 20% (or higher), when it is warranted, which happens to be…

Here’s a crazy way to “disrupt” tipping, pay the servers an actual livable wage like the rest of the world does. I just can’t stand the whole social convention of tipping. Just charge me for the fucking meal and pay the servers. I mean fine, feel free to tip for exceptional service, but christ why make everything an…

Orrr... completely ban “tipped minimum wage” and return the notion of tipping to what most people assume it is before learning that “tipped minimum wage” exists: a reward for exceptional service. I had no idea that was a thing for a LONG time, and was aghast to learn about it.

The thing is, Americans keep saying tips are a guarantor of good service, but service in the US is far worse than in low-tip or no-tip places like Europe and Japan. What you get in the US is the fake-smile, over-friendly subservience designed to make the customer feel powerful. Actual service is, in my opinion, poor…

Oorrrrrr just pay your workers a livable wage, you fucks.

Jesus Christ. It’s like the tech bro philosophy is to develop only the dimmest awareness of an issue and then figure out a way to add an unnecessary, complicating layer to it, resulting in tons of negative externalities and then skimming money off of investors and people who are strong armed into using their app.

Fuck tipping. It’s an archaic form of exploitation that exists solely to justify under-paying workers. In France, to take but one European example, the notion of tipping is unheard of. Servers are paid well. There’s no bullshit math to do. There’s no threat, of the type described above.

How about we just vote to pay servers a living wage and then we can give up on this whole socially awkward tipping mess entirely. It seems a fairer solution.

Yet another reason to hate these Silicon Valley socially-inadequate nerds and their attempts to hurt the working-class, either by further denigrating our jobs or by eliminating them entirely.

Silicon Valley disrupting industries again!

I went back and forth on this for several minutes, but I decided “dick Icarus” was too mellifluous a phrase to be denied, and I stand by it.

“But alas, this dick Icarus drew it too close to the sun, and now he must fall.”

Unless everyone actually JOINED Trump’s weird, vanity Twitter knockoff it would be a pretty significant change, I should think. And given how many social media knockoffs are born and then die unmourned nowadays, I feel like it’s unlikely many of us would...

What would happen if Twitter banned Donald Trump:

Maybe they could just, I don’t know, actually enforce the policies already in place, be more open about how they enforce their TOS, and maybe prevent Trump form making further tweets before we all die?