• chilicheeselies@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    It is 100% taking advantage. If you accept the labor of a person and you know that most of their compensation is at your discretion, and you don’t do it because you aren’t forced to, you are just as exploitive if not more so. I mean do you really need it to be baked into the price to force you to do the right thing?

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      6 days ago

      100% of their compensation is at my discretion. I’m paying for the meal. There was an advertised and agreed upon price of said meal.

      When i go into a grocery store to buy milk. I’m not tipping my cashier for handling my transaction. I expect that to be included in the price of the products i buy.

      The right thing. Is for the employer to pay their employees.

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          No, I just don’t live in a shithole where service workers have to beg customers for extra donations juat to pay their bills.

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              Nope. Healthcare is 99.99% paid for by the state. If you spend $200 for medication in a year, that’s your cap. And the rest of your medication for the year will be $0.

              Everyone have free dental until they turn 26.

              Everyone is in a union.

              Tuition to universities is $0.

              All kids in elementary and secondary education recieve free school lunches, which in 99.99% of cases consists of an all you can eat buffet.

              I could go on but I’m sure you get the point.