Why these workers want a LOWER minimum wage

[@WillieFungo]

The Indian woman is a grifter. She makes a living through this fake activism.

[@Degarth]

The part about this benefits large national chains more than independents is interesting to me. I wonder who One Fair Wages largest donors are.

[@WillieFungo]

​@@Degarth In North America, social justice agendas are almost always designed to promote corporate interests. It's the same story with immigration. What they really want is to stimulate economic demand. Her donors are likely the same people who fund the Democrats.

[@OkayAnd]

You’re disgusting you need to be grateful to this Indian, she’s helping your community more than Murry

[@MaskedZoo]

​@@Degarth All mcdonalds. All are one. 😅

[@4Wayee]

DC area bartender here; what ppl who “fight for $15” don’t get is that this is a commission based position. If I sell $2000 I make $400. IDGAF about my hourly.

[@jwfcp]

So what? You feel like it would impact your tips if people didn't secretly think you were a beggar?

[@brookiegremlin6660]

@@jwfcp it would.

[@jwfcp]

@@brookiegremlin6660 So cut out the middle man and sit on the curb with a cardboard sign then if thats how you really think. I guarantee that people will still tip even if you are paid a full wage, it was NEVER about pity for you and everything about the person tipping trying to up their social status by being seen as someone who tips big.

[@brookiegremlin6660]

@@jwfcp you're missing the point--idc about the internal motivations of customers. I care about money. When I worked at places that paid 2.13/hour, I took home at least 50/hour in tips. My friends who currently work at places paying 15/hour usually take home about 18/hour. Look, if this woman wants to stick it to the man for the sake of glorifying herself in her wokeness, nobody can stop her. But she's hurting the pockets of actual servers, and she doesn't care at all.

[@isaiahrichards9319]

​@@brookiegremlin6660 hot take but making 6 figures as a waiter also makes no sense either though and that's what you're implying you make. The burden shouldn't be on an employer or customers to pay you that and everyone else who doesn't work a tip based job shouldn't suffer just for your greed.

[@gta4everrr]

The only thing that's really annoying about tipping is that everybody wants a tip now, not just those earning a tipped wage. It's really annoying.

[@Marty234]

Ya I was like that at 1st too, but now I just keep cash on me and throw a buck or 2 into those kinds of works tip jars, I'm not giving 20% but it makes them happy and it's only a $. Now I find myself getting annoyed at food cashiers who don't have a tip jar lol. Its a good way to get really good service & hook ups as well as making others happy

[@ryanwiseman9141]

Like I order a carry out pizza. I call and get a call center now. I go pick up the pizza, they hand it to me and take my payment. I’m not tipping you. I’ve done that job at several pizza places. I paid for the pizza, it’s priced to reflect the overhead of the restaurant. If I paid $10 for the pizza, you better believe I’d be tipping them, but it’s like 20-30

[@Jimraynor45]

Well, they are trying to take advantage of your generosity. You just have to harden your heart and become like ice.

[@AJadedLizard]

@@ryanwiseman9141 I found out the pizza place I usually patronize gives 100% of those tips to the shift manager. No thanks.

[@dancrea9407]

Reminds me of that commercial where a man is at the self checkout and the screen is asking for a tip. When parody meets reality.

[@gregorynewman5167]

*Activist confronted with data* “Well, those data must be wrong!”

[@jonathanjones3126]

Activists alway cherrypick data that show their viewpoint and when you show them the actual data they put their fingers in their ears and cover their eyes

[@Marty234]

Right! And I have good data, where is it... oh it's in the mail... I swear I sent it to you

[@ehanneken]

I see some commenters objecting to “tip culture.” That’s fine, but this is something that can be addressed through markets and cultural debate. Passing a law to get your way is just as coercive and wrong as passing a law to mandate paying waiters through tips. There’s room for different ways to compensate restaurant workers, and we can sort it out peacefully.

[@MrVariant]

We can't. It's how slacktivists are, or corporate hits hard the other way.

[@JustSoNso]

They don't mention the dirty little secret that much of tipped income is not reported to be taxed - why waitstaff love cash tips. My mom was a waitress.

[@DanCooper404]

I tip in cash, even if I use a card to pay for the meal, because what the server does with that money is his or her business, no one else's.

[@sanniepstein4835]

A Democrat l know never gives cash tips for this reason.

[@Marty234]

​@DanCooper404 I do the same! I carry cash in small bills just for this purpose. I NEVER tip with a card. One thing I was told was to write "cash" in the tip line so that the waiter remembers that you tipped in cash and doesn't think you are a cheapskate & spit in ur food next time 😅

[@angelinejohnson9511]

@@DanCooper404 meh. If wait staff choose to not report income for tax purposes, and then later whine about how little SSDI they're eligible for, that IS on them -- but if they're going to report, why risk walking home late at night with hundreds of dollars in cash? Going to go pay cash for rent?

[@thadoc5186]

You think you’re spilling some high level secret?

[@jerome_dangelo]

Celebrities and activists making decisions for real people is always a bad combination.

[@jonathanjones3126]

@@jerome_dangelo politicians and bureaucrats are included in that

[@Marty234]

@@jonathanjones3126 ANYONE making a decision for another person is always bad. Its literally the antithesis of what this country was founded for - freedom

[@jonathanjones3126]

@Marty234 I am not anti regulation, but the people involved in the rules need to actively listen to all parties, most listen to the people primarily affected. Having a clean environment is a good thing but you cannot kill the economy to do so.

[@beachwind7274]

Finally, an actual documentary video. Wish you guys were able to do this more often.

[@ReasonTV]

We are trying to ramp up production of our documentary films. We have a few coming out in the next few weeks. Stay tuned. We appreciate your feedback!

[@cookiebun95]

That woman and her smugness is absolutely infuriating. When did she ever work in a restaurant?

[@juancuelloespinosa]

13:17 three times, and all 3 seem to have failed

[@dampierstucco5778]

@@juancuelloespinosa And it seems that her restaurants had to steal from the employees to last as long as they did. smdh

[@brookiegremlin6660]

professional activists are hustlers and charlatans.

[@jumboshrimps4498]

Shouldn't matter. Just because you worked at a restaurant, doesn't give you the right to interfere with my freedom to work.

[@Sammich4839]

yale law grad can't even properly run a restaraunt lol

[@ethanmx2]

The inevitable truth is that the true minimum wage is, and always will be, $0

[@deafinitaly5948]

"if they could pay you nothing, they would". so sad to see workers advocating against themselves.

[@agisler87]

​@@deafinitaly5948not advocating against themselves, advocating against government power.

[@johnbees4443]

​@@deafinitaly5948 It truly is

[@lightfusegetaway]

When ego and economic illiteracy collide, we get higher prices, businesses closing, and joblessness. Depressing.

[@jwfcp]

Min wage hikes never kill jobs, how about you pay for your own luxury spending instead of expecting the govt to bail out your cheeseburger.

[@MrVariant]

​@@jwfcpit depends on how much. Nobody wants a balance; double or nothing is a crazy ultimatum. Wish they had some workers mention on the low end instead of acting like waiting tables is always going to have good pay.

[@jwfcp]

@@MrVariant No, its not crazy that working people be able to pay their own bills. That you have successfully delayed fixing a problem for decades isn't an argument against fixing the problem. Reject communism, embrace capitalism, say no to handouts and pay full price or your burger.

[@Eatbutternow]

@jwfcp As someone who has had to quit a job I loved because of losing $400 a week in time and a half pay from my paycheck due to my wage being raised, and has many friends and family members that have lost their jobs because their company needing to cut costs to afford the minimum wage increase, I can confidently tell you that you are wrong about wage hikes never killing jobs.

[@jwfcp]

@@Eatbutternow "losing $400 a week in time and a half pay from my paycheck due to my wage being raised, " Thats insane gibberish, stop going onto the internet and lying to people. Look at how wages were a dollar an hour in the 50's, surely employment must only be a small fraction of what it was then? No, you insufferable putz. The dollar is simply worth less now, you need to spend more of them to get the same stuff you wanted.

[@gotgunpowder]

That woman is a sociopath. You can tell by how she blames the victims of an initiative she pushed.

[@brookiegremlin6660]

professional organizers are narcissists. they don't care who they hurt, so long as they can engage in public moral posturing.

[@stephenschultz7919]

Force the labor to be more expensive, you make the end product more expensive. Worse you eventually throw people out of work.

[@funwithcupcakes923]

Massachusetts beat this back! The Restaurant Association fought hard and all the tipped employees voted NO. "One Fair Wage" got obliterated in Massachusetts. Saru Jayaraman is pure evil.

[@anarchist_parable]

Something else that I as a service worker would love for Reason to investigate is the activists that campaign to force small businesses to be handicap accessible. Most businesses can't afford ramps. A coffee shop in a historic neighborhood may not be able to change the facade of the building at all. In my progressive area there have been many boycotts of businesses that weren't handicap accessible, robbing decent people of jobs and ultimately robbing the community of businesses that were serving them. People don't understand that not everywhere can be accessible or that if you want places to update their layout, you have to support them so they can afford it. I hate to say it but it truly is a lot of privileged people punching the little guys.

[@ReasonTV]

Thanks for the suggestion, we can certainly look into this. We always appreciate tips from our audience.

[@TheWhiskyRebel]

@@ReasonTV "We always appreciate *tips* from our audience." Pun intended, I'm hoping.

[@sanniepstein4835]

We must flatten all mountains, because I am not fit for mountain climbing.

[@ronrothrock7116]

@@sanniepstein4835 I have a Natural Resources (from a college in NY) degree and we discussed a case (in NY) where a handicapped person wanted access to a wilderness area. They literally put in a gate and a paved road for that handicapped person to access the wilderness area. The one defining factor for a wilderness area is that it is supposed to have no human influence to it, including roads. So in essence, they destroyed the wilderness character of the designated wilderness area because of the ADA laws (that the courts said supersede the wilderness laws.) So, yes, flatten the mountain because the one person was not able to climb it.

[@HenryThree]

Critics of the American tipping system are so numerous that it has become a cliché, though it's funny how almost none of them have ever actually worked for tips.

[@jackjrabbit]

Prossives "Our policies are never bad. Anything that happens after our policy implementation never has anything to do with our policy implementation unless it's good." "Everything that happens that's bad in an area that we're targeting with new policy is because of the naughty people that we don't like. It never has anything to do with anything else." "The data that we have is awesome, but we wont share it with you even when we say that we will unless its been cooked in some way."

[@phays10]

People who want this don't care if they ruin a business or the workwr who no longer has a job. It's about feeling moral. Here in Washington they changed the minimum wage and businesses used to be able to count tips towards that wage. Now they cannot... Restaurants said we can't afford it and people were like then you should go out of business. Crazy.

[@nunyabidness-y2r]

The reality is, I tip less now because everything costs more. I only have so much money to go around. When a medium latte cost $4, I would tip a dollar. Now it costs $5.50. I don't tip, and I buy less of them (bring more coffee from home).

[@rtlau-mk4di]

Me too. And the local coffee shop close to where I work now charges extra for every little thing. If you get more than three packets of sugar, they charge you 50 cents for that, and they also charge for lite ice. They also tried to make me pay $1.75 for a cup of water. It's better to just make coffee at home. It tastes better anyway.

[@RJKYEG]

When I discuss minimum wage with someone who says it should go up, which isn't often, I ask (I am an annoying person), "Why not higher? Why not make it $30/hr? Why not $40/hr? Why not make it $50/hr? We could all make $100,000 a year."

[@ronrothrock7116]

They want it that high, but they are just smart enough to realize they have to start off smaller.

[@bigjohn2811]

I remember in college, the students that worked part time tipped jobs made bank. They left college with low debt.

[@MaskedZoo]

Take the hint. If the people you are "helping" don't want your help, you are doing it wrong.

[@bobthemagicmoose]

As a former waiter, I hate the tipping system. That said, I loved how on slow days I just did homework and read books... making like half the minimum wage. These goons pushing for crazy minimum wages would say i shouldn't be allowed to do that and it would be better for the owner to send me home. Minimum wage decreases the flexibility in the marketplace.

[@ronrothrock7116]

I'm curious why you hated the tipping system. From the consumer perspective, I like it because if the server does a lousy job then I am justified in providing less compensation. In other words I believe it encourages/rewards better service.

[@CalPersona]

I made 72k in one year working in fine dining while being in school full time (online sophomore year community college) I love tipping!

[@TugHillGuy]

Will she ever have the humility to admit she was deeply wrong?

[@nerbyoso122]

I don't think so. Becauae she's a non binary Indian

[@Krangbot]

She's a democrat so no, not at all.

[@ronrothrock7116]

Will any of the RNA COVID vaccine pushers admit they were wrong to mandate the vaccines? No, they will not admit they were wrong, because they believe they "did it for the right reasons".

[@CPAgamer313]

I run a bar downtown. I pulled in $98,000 last year and 75K of that was under the table “cash” and I only work three nights a week so restaurant jobs do not all pay poverty wages

[@jasonsporl3981]

I live in California & the $20 minimum wage lost me my job. Lots of people lost their jobs, or had their hours cut. Now going out to eat cost more & service is worse. The crazy thing was I read articles claiming this raise had very little impact on restaurants & employees. That's BS!

[@idrathernot_2]

If you made under 20 in California you already were buttered ass broke

[@xtreme242]

That minimum wage law affected fast food....you were earning tips at burger king?

[@jasonsporl3981]

@xtreme242 It affected more than just McDonald's & Burger King! Ask the 1200 drivers at Pizza Hut that lost their jobs. They fell under the law too. The problem is in CA most food service places are franchises owned by regular people not corporations. They don't make the same profits as corporate stores! There was no job growth people just had to get 2nd jobs because their hours got cut.

[@kerpwnt]

"Before you click the thumbs down, it's just going to ask you a question..." Add a tip? 20% 25% 30%

[@everythingisfine9988]

Don't forget about the best option of all: "No Tip" or "Skip" 😎

[@Coverpage2568]

@@everythingisfine9988 They put tape on these option now man 😅. It's just horrible

[@xtreme242]

This is the only industry where your pay was decided by the customer and not your employer

[@mwatercress]

Wow, 3 failed attempts to put her policies into use and she locks in even more. (Props for trying) The power of cognitive dissonance is profound in this one. Then supporting her cause with erroneous statistics is absolutely wild. Harvard and Yale must be so proud. SMH And the irony of her organization being sued for wage theft and discrimination LMAO

[@zakcarroll1]

As someone who has worked in food and beverage for 15 years, the only tipped employees that I've worked with who wanted to implement a minimum wage were the employees who sucked at their job. I dropped out of college and I've seen people who graduated come and start doing exactly what I'm doing because the job they just spent an ungodly amount of money on doesn't pay as well as the restaurant job they had during college.

[@BBB_bbb_BBB]

The part that drives me most insane about this is that these advocacy groups talk about protecting the little guy, but the only people who benefit in the long run from minimum wage increase is the big corporations that can eat the costs and now have less competition as smaller businesses go under. Whereas every time someone supposedly is better off because their wage increased, a couple of months later they're already talking that it isn't enough because either their hours were cut, or inflation already ate up the additional income. In Ontario when our minimum wage jumped to $14, I was working at a salon that had 11 staff that immediately shrunk to 9, and we were getting fewer hours on top of that. And when our prices increased to reflect the new wages, people started tipping less as well. I'd say it was about $500 less in my pocket at the end of the month after all was said and done.

[@brookiegremlin6660]

they are trying to benefit themselves, by creating fake controversies so they have work to do. advocacy is a grift.

[@Marty234]

@@BBB_bbb_BBB logic and facts don't matter to these people. Its about using force to coerce ppl to do what they want, its a power trip and a deep hatred of freedom and America in general.

[@johnbees4443]

The problem is wages should have raised steadily. But soo much money was spent keeping it down that...yeah $15.00 hour sounds alot...cause it's $7.75 more than federal minimum wage of $7.25. The last time the wage was raised was in 2009...if only it raised little by little each year to beat inflation.....WE WOULDN'T BE STUCK IN THIS SITUATION

[@J0shM0nster]

1 fair wage is just a grift. Not a single good intention in sight.

[@WillieFungo]

Bingo.

[@matthewmechtly5026]

The real minimum wage is always $0 if your skills aren't developed enough for you to land a job.

[@yoshiramar1992]

Minimum wedge is supposed to be the minimum cost of living in the US

[@sumdud2129]

This woman sounds like an industry plant. she was sent to wreak havock on Independent business owners under the guise of helping minimum wage workers

[@ninosegers]

I'm glad that i no longer need to feel guilty to not tip. They are happy with the position they are in. Good video 👍👍

[@ErinMagner82]

A lot of small businesses don't have an incentive to hire servers or bartenders because they don't have the flow into the business at a particular time, but a server or bartender might take a position knowing that people will come into be served by them. That's why tipping works better than just a flat wage for restaurants and workers. When it comes to chain restaurants, it's not as simple, especially when big corporations can keep the cost of the meals low compared with a small family run establishment with higher costs. Smaller businesses tend to be better options for entertaining than corporations and therefore forcing a higher minimum wage just drives the market towards consolidation, which no one wants.

[@ronrothrock7116]

Perhaps those big chain restaurants are the ones financing her? To push out the smaller competition? Or perhaps some in the government are behind her financing? I hear the servers regularly report lower tips than they really get so that they don't may as much in taxes. Maybe government wants those tax dollars?

[@nobodynever7884]

We are from the government and we are here to help.

[@douglaskane4708]

I was a waiter in NYS, when my wages went from $5/hr to $8/hr my yearly tips were reduced ny $30,000 the first year.

[@josephwheeler1]

I'm sorry but I've got to say it. This is what always happens when you increase minimum wage. Small businesses go out of business and fire staff and nobody seems to care.

[@josephwheeler1]

Remember this is not supply and demand. No one is competing and doing it better somewhere else. This is artificial from the government.

[@christopherbasham1551]

If people really believe a minimum wage is needed we should index it to inflation since 1938. The minimum wage was created in 1938, it was 25 cents an hour. That amount, 25 cents, adjusted for inflation is $5.60 per hour.

[@johnbees4443]

Last time we raised it was 2009

[@ronrothrock7116]

That is interesting. I did not know that. I just did my fact check and it is correct. I think all those bellyachers out there need to know this fact and STFU!

[@ronrothrock7116]

@@johnbees4443 And the comment you replied to just pointed out that it should be adjusted to $5.60, not go up.

[@micki0finn430]

My problem with tipping is that it is everywhere now. It is one thing to tip someone when you go to a sit down restaurant you plan to give a tip and is a treat, it is another for it to be expected and food carts, for pick up, for fast food, etc.

[@J0shM0nster]

Wage laws are a violation of property rights.

[@carultch]

So what's a solution to mitigate the race to the bottom that motivates employers to pay people peanuts?

[@Tusk_Tact]

​@@carultchfree market

[@johnbees4443]

​@@Tusk_Tact😂😂😂😂😂😢😅 FREE MARKET 😂😂😂That's hilarious. 🎉 Tell me...why is the wage raising now? Is it because we finally reached a point of where the juice isn't worth the squeeze?

[@ronrothrock7116]

@@johnbees4443 Actually the free market IS what is causing it to go up. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 and many states still have that also. But if you look at what the bottom end wages are actually being paid is quite a bit more than that in those areas. So, what is your evidence for why wages are increasing now?

[@ArgumentumAdHominem]

I'm a European. I have watched this video, and I still do not understand the argument in support of compulsory tips. How exactly does higher minimum wage result in higher costs of doing business? Here is my understanding: I go to a restaurant, and pay a fixed amount for my food, plus some amount for a tip. In EU, the minimum tip is zero - I only have to pay a tip for outstanding service, good service does not require a tip. In US, I have to leave a minimum tip of 10% or the waiter will go home hungry. So rising the minimum wage and decreasing the minimum tip should have no effect on the costs of running the business, just make the cost of eating out more upfront. What am I missing?

[@ethanton7074]

An owner pays workers more, so they raise the price so they can make the same amount. -1 owner profit, so -1 to customer to get equilibrium for the owner. Simplest I can say, I think.

[@ArgumentumAdHominem]

@ethanton7074 what about tips? Higher salary, higher prices, but lower tips would result in the same total cost for the consumer, so the number of consumers would not change.

[@gurugru5958]

This is the problem with democracy. People who don't understand something are deciding things for people who do.

[@OkayAnd]

I do agree that tipped jobs Wages are ridiculous and rooted from the great depression. And needs to change. I also agreed that the tip wage doesn’t need to be fix. because Servers get paid well in tips

[@IAmInterested-cc4hr]

Who is paying this ivy league lawyer to be a professional advocate?

[@ronrothrock7116]

I live in Oregon where waiters/waitresses are mandated to be paid the same minimum wage that all other workers make ($13-15/hr depending on where you are). On top of that I'm expected to tip 15-20%. Every time I eat out I seriously reconsider my career path, because I know I will earn more under those conditions than I do at my current job. Either these folks should get paid a regular wage or they should earn a much smaller wage and earn those 15% tips, but not both. It simply makes it too expensive to eat out. I, personally, prefer the tip method because it rewards good service. If the servers are going to earn the same no matter their service level, then there is no incentive for them to provide outstanding service. I guess this is what you get when people appeal to emotion and not facts/logic; broken policies that hurt everyone.

[@juancuelloespinosa]

this reminds me a lot of covid. unfortunately, "facts" and "data" don't actually mean truth. so we all tend to show only the information that supports the reality we want

[@Eliteownage]

"data is confirmed by the new york times" lol, lmao even

[@ArloPignotti]

Worked sometimes hourly and other times for tips. Earning tips was hit-or-miss, but an important experience I wouldn't've wanted to do wothout. Know the many unintended consequences before you take that option away.

[@drweetabix]

Rich kid trying to save the working class. Giving herself big Pat's on the back for nothing.

[@OwlScan]

Using ancestral guilt as a cudgel to manipulate people into thinking correctly despite the people they are trying the 'help' objecting? Never seen that tactic before.

[@anonymousguy1158]

Tipping culture needs to be cancelled, now a days even mac D and subway want tips. Even a pick up option they ask for tip. These people make lot of money without paying taxes

[@orderfirst8907]

Trump is right. Don't get rid of the tax credit. Allow those who get tips to pay a lower tax rate on those tips, and for those paying these tips, to get tax deductions or rebates on the tips they pay.

[@hyperreal]

Thank you

[@Eaglemadhatter]

$2.15 minimum wage for waiters in my state.

[@iceman4660]

As usual the enlightened ones have come to save those who are unaware they need to be saved.

[@Lutz64]

why is the customer suppose to be the payroll for staff.

[@abdullahakhtar9824]

If we all stop giving out tips then they will want higher wages

[@makesumwake]

Gov needs to get out of the free market and let workers and companies work out what's best for themselves on a case by case basis. One size fits also just means that it fits no one

[@thadoc5186]

She’s just a damn busy body. Mind your own business! If people don’t want to work for a wage then they won’t do it!!

[@TRyan3]

Ty for this

[@safetythirdified]

"You dont know whats good for you, but my Yale degree will fix that."

[@yoshiramar1992]

Where do you people think you can hire people for less money than it cost to buy or rent a house ?? 😢if a job can’t pay a living wedge it needs to go out of business! It will be replaced by one that can

[@ronrothrock7116]

Are you saying that someone who empties the trash and sweeps the walkways at the local park should earn enough money working full time to buy a house?

[@robertnaylor6119]

Halfway through this video, I started thinking that Suru needs to open and run a restaurant/bar to see reality through reality's lens. But then near the end of the video she did... well, not with not her own $$$ at least and it still failed. Three times.

[@anonymousguy1158]

They want tax free tips which make lot of their income, they all should be salaried people

[@Longjohnsilver58]

If your servers are making minimum wage, then there should be no tips, no service charges, etc. The salary is baked into the sale price, which is the norm everywhere else. Right?

[@latimer442]

The very reasons that tipped staff love tips is the very reason customers do not. We don't want to be responsible for the payroll of the restaurant's staff.

[@tylerboro4812]

I want to lower minimum wage to $5.15 an hour.

[@loidforger6413]

When other developed countries haveminimum wage, why can't usa implement it as well, the idea of paying less and forcing people for tips is insane...

[@ronrothrock7116]

The concept goes like this: If the worker knows they will make the same amount whether they do a good job or an OK job, what incentive do they have to do a good job? If the person knows they will earn more for doing a better job, then it sounds like a win-win. The customer gets better service, for which they are happy to pay more for, and the server makes more money.

[@SevenRiderAirForce]

Who's going to give Saru Jayaraman a history lesson on the Davis Bacon Act?

[@ronrothrock7116]

I could use that lesson. While I could go look it up quick enough, perhaps if you put it here others may learn about it also. So, if you don't mind, can you give me a quick history lesson on that Act and what happened?

[@SevenRiderAirForce]

@@ronrothrock7116 Black workers were bidding away work from white workers in the 1930s by taking lower wages. White people didn't like losing work. So they lobbied Congress claiming that their jobs were being unfairly taken away. No less than 3 Congressmen said explicitly, as part of the official record, that the purpose of the act was to handle complaints of "cheap colored labor." The solution was to mandate a minimum (or "prevailing" in the verbiage of the act) wage for public works. This would remove the financial incentive to hire black workers, and the racist sentiments of the time would therefore see a return to the hiring of white labor. tl;dr: The minimum wage was enacted in the USA with the explicit intention of keeping black people unemployed.

[@tuseemusic6269]

Her being so wrong on the data Is wild

[@Eman20861]

I honestly hate tip culture, I see it as a business forcing the customer to compensate for the lower pay they're paying their employees, not tipping is an option, but I also don't want to look like an asshole, so tipping is kinda required. There are nations that see tipping as a bad thing, I want to get there, where we see the *tipper* as the asshole. I understand that means higher costs for what I'm buying, but that higher cost should go towards paying the employees more. The fact one guy in this piece said he made in one day, what some office workers make in a year is super telling that we need to kill tipping, it's basically an extra tax on the consumer. I don't endorse a minimum wage at all, I think that's stupid and the business should be able to determine what they want to pay their workers, if someone is willing to work for less, who cares if both people are in agreement to the terms of employment? As a libertarian, I think we need to make that the business of the employee and employer, not the government.

[@everythingisfine9988]

Just don't tip

[@Eman20861]

@@everythingisfine9988 and look like an asshole? I gave a 5 dollar tip on a $20 bill once at a Chinese restaurant and I got the nastiest stares from the staff on my way out, you thought I just walked out without giving them anything with the evil eyes that were being shot at me. If I could avoid tipping I would, but I also like eating out and not worrying about people spitting in my food because they remembered I didn't tip.

[@ronrothrock7116]

So when comparing a tipping culture and one where people just made a wage, do you think you would get the same service from both? I tend to think that if people know they will earn more for doing a better job, they will do a better job. What is your take on that?

[@kymaeryk]

She says about government stats doing the same thing

[@Coverpage2568]

Just end mandatory tipping, we did not employed you your employer did. Edit :- Tipping is alternative to begging.

[@Marty234]

That is exactly what the workers DONT want, they make more than minimum wage. I love tipping, I used to love getting tips so I like being able to make ppl happy (and get good service while I'm at it, its a win-win!)

[@Coverpage2568]

@Marty234 so it should be on customers willingness if they want to tip them or not it's not what is expected from us as customers. Because everyone works hard in their jobs and don't get tipped like they do.

[@brookiegremlin6660]

end it? it never started. there is no mandatory tipping.

[@Coverpage2568]

@@brookiegremlin6660 They ridicule us customers if we don't tip them. Like they just can't demand tip for decent service, have some self respect ppl.

[@brookiegremlin6660]

@@Coverpage2568 I actually agree with you that the whole tipping system is ridiculous, It puts the onus on customers to pay a server's wage, and causes servers to feel resentful and frustrated when customers don't want to do that. However, this video is about this one activist and her made-up silly movement. Her entire premise is "I need to rescue these poor waiters and bartenders." Those people have made it clear her help is unwelcome. I'm sure she's helping *herself* however, as she can collect a salary as an advocate (particularly if she runs a non-profit) all the while soliciting celebrities and rich people for tax-deductible donations. She's a grifter., and doesn't care about the people she is purporting to help. Ime, that is typical of professional "advocates." Selfish and fake.

[@riffism]

Ah yes…the liberal savior complex. I mean..what could POSSIBLY go wrong?

[@AgonxOC]

The OFW chick is like your data is wrong, my data is right… Haha! Talk about some misinformation!

[@seanrhone5306]

How dare you not want to be “saved” by the benevolent overlords lol

[@jackywong9743]

If One Fair Wage and similiar org have a "savior's complex" to try to raise min wage, then I guess it is also "savior's complex" to tip servers because why on earth would anyone tip anybody of not because of "savior's complex"?

[@JohnTightlips]

Is Reason finally bringing back the golden age of reasonTV? Did KMW get fired or something?

[@Eaglemadhatter]

Tips are way to make consumers to pay the lack of wage pay. Waiters aren't the tipping issue it's the one who rings up a small coffee in a drive thru and swings that tip tablet to me. Or a vape shop. Or any other shop. I

[@IAmInterested-cc4hr]

Also, notice something? The government approved data says, the new york times says, and so on.

[@jackjrabbit]

She's happy to send you data ...... The dots are because I was waiting for the follow up "We never got the data" in the video.

[@jackjrabbit]

Labor "activists" Not the actual labor itself. Does it have much to do with better conditions for the worker?

[@blaqgamin5073]

Si I buy your food and you charge Mr a service fee but someone else is waiting and serving 😅

[@d33pblu3]

Been a while since a reason documentary

[@everythingisfine9988]

Tipping is an option. So click "Skip" 😎

[@Promano1978]

Ramen should stick to noodles

[@muhammadsalmangalileo945]

Sure you didn't want to increase minimum wage UUUUNNNTIIIL price get to high that people consider stop or lowering tip. 100% sure they will start complaining then.

[@garydavidson6917]

so did i understand, that wages increased and the prices had to be increased? well if that is the case it is fine with me! remember what happened to manufacturing job

[@Hat3M0ng3r]

Why? Can you're paying these shills to say they want less money that's why. Any ony of these shills id gladly carve a new smile on btw. And I'm not liberal.

[@stephenreaves3205]

phenomenal journalism

[@ReasonTV]

Thank you! We are glad you appreciate our documentary work.

[@connernickerson5509]

Tips should be eliminated entirely, it is THE reason I do not want to go out to eat. Menu prices are absured, and you expect me to pay 20% on top of that, in additon to taxes? No sir, find a way to reduce costs for the consumer, and become more efficient in your business practices.

[@Rob-me8vp]

Another stupid lib

[@shred3190]

what do these workers want? just WHAT DO THEY WANT?

[@evanhdez]

They want to live a nice life

[@ordnancesoldier3494]

If you need a better job to support yourself, get a better job... Unless you manage the place, being a bartender or waitress is a job you do to gain work experience so you can develop a career of your own.

[@judahfriedman8516]

Good video

[@ReasonTV]

Thank you for watching! We are glad you enjoyed.

[@Eatbutternow]

I had to quit a job I really liked and move when Massachusetts raised its minimum wage to $15. Before that I was making $13, but I got payed $19.50 an hour for my 12 hour Sunday shift and the 20 hours of overtime I worked every week. It was an easy job and I had a lot of free time at work while the machine I took care of ran so I didn’t mind being there for 60 hours a week. When the state raised minimum wage the company took away time and a half on Sunday and most overtime. I started bringing home almost $400 less a week after that. I couldn’t afford that so I got a second job to make up for the 20 hours I lost, but 60 hours at $15 an hour was still $100 less a week than I was making with the extra Sunday pay and overtime. I was struggling to make ends meet with that. The worst part about the whole thing was my left wing family members who would tell me how lucky I am that Democrats raised my wages. I would try to explain that I’m making way less money. I would do the basic math and show them my paychecks to prove it. But they would tell me that I’m wrong and that I must have fallen for right wing conspiracy theory’s. They’re a bunch of smug delusional morons.

[@neyedol]

She didn't link it to slavery....history did.