• hark@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    At first you seem to be downplaying feeling of social pressure by saying you don’t see the need to legislate it away, but then you go on to state that the pressure is part of an exploitation scheme. You could claim that blackmail is mere social pressure and that there is no need to legislate it away, yet there are laws against blackmail.

    In the last paragraph, you state that eliminating tipping would hurt those industries because they would have to increase prices, but the prices are already increased through the use of tipping and social pressure. Eliminating tipping simply makes pays more consistent so that one employee isn’t greatly out-earning their coworker just because they’re a pretty young white woman.