WalterBongjammin [they/them,comrade/them] @ WalterBongjammin @hexbear.net

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Ayyy, no worries and I appreciate you acknowledging the mistake

You're all over this thread calling the workers scabs when the article says they were asking for a pooled-tip structure. At least read the thing before hurling insults at people

Countries that don't have tipping tend to have sectoral collective bargaining, which (at least ideally) ensures a relatively good wage for all workers in a sector. If there are levels of unionisation/worker organisation that can make this a reality in the US, then go for it. However, in the absence of that Janny's post makes a lot of useful points about the potential effects of a capital-led transition to tip-free work. It strikes me like almost no one in this thread has even read the article that we're all notionally discussing. I admit I don't know what the positions of the presumably numerous US restaurant workers' unions are on these questions, but the article states that these workers were being advised by one and wanted to retain a pooled-tip structure

But the article literally talks about them asking for a pooled-tip structure and that they were being supported by the union. One of the workers says that the $30 an hour is a 40% pay cut

I get where you're coming from, but if they make more with tips shouldn't we support them keeping tips?

On the one hand, 'autonomous' vehicles suck. On the other hand, they tried to run over a finance worker...

Capitalist realism but for the past as well. Fucking bleak position to be unaware that not all of human history is just genocide and mass slaughter

It's also a weird choice to be moving to a country with an even more disintegrated infrastructure and a literal neo-fascist government. What are the problems with the US way of life that they don't like?

Do you know how many jobs that dead Palestinian child created in Pennsylvania? Still think that genocide is bad tankie?

Lmao, couldn't they have come up with a less CIA front-organisation name than 'The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies'?

Smh that Macron came up with the perfectly cromulent 'islamo-leftism' and the Anglo swine just ignored it

Argentinian congressional debates be like

Baron Cohen has always been a reactionary. He got famous doing black face

Can't believe Xi seduced her father

But how real are these fears?

Not at all real

This happening was inevitable when European liberals decided that criticism of Israel is anti-semitism

Least fascist r/Europe user

Yeah, that's true, and Biden may well win. We'll see one way or another. But I would say that promises of what you'd do in power are much more convincing when you're not already in power and not doing whatever you're promising

Not running a meaningful campaign was literally Biden's successful strategy. Given that neither party can any longer offer the majority of Americans any improvement in their standard of living, I think we'll increasingly see one term presidents as people just vote against the person they've seen the most of most recently and so dislike the most intensely, i.e. the incumbent

Ayyy, marone! As a 60th generation survivor of the sack of Rome, this is very disrespectful!