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February 19, 2016 08:32 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/WRwDDMLIyRo/tipping-screws-poor-people-wo.html
Tipping screws poor people, women, brown people, restaurateurs, local economies and...you
The evidence against tipping is voluminous and damning: it plunges workers into sub-subsistence wages, subjects woman servers to sexual harassment, encourages servers to deliver poor service to people of color (and old, young, and foreign people), incentivizes workers to take actions that harm the business (free drinks for big tippers!), and covers up a system of widespread criminal wage-fraud that lands disproportionately on the backs of workers who are already poor and marginalized. (more…)
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