• Flying Squid
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    154 months ago

    Maybe it’s your job to avoid patronizing places that don’t pay their employees enough though?

      • Flying Squid
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        -14 months ago

        If you keep patronizing such businesses, why would they ever do that? They know they don’t have to in order to get your money. And it is the same with your own near-minimum wage job. You are working against your own best interests. Nothing will change while people are willing to give their money to companies that don’t pay their workers a fair wage.

          • Flying Squid
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            24 months ago

            Right,so don’t use those businesses. You give them no reason to do anything differently.

            All you are doing is helping to maintain the status quo.

            • Victor
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              4 months ago

              You don’t get it, I think? The point is to get the workers to quit or protest because they don’t get paid enough, so that the place can increase the prices instead so they can pay their workers. If the place is still providing a nice service or good food or whatever it may be, you don’t want it to go out of business. Just make a worker-positive change.

              • Flying Squid
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                54 months ago

                It takes everyone to fix these issues. It is not a one-sided job. Every time you give these establishments money, you help them.

                And there is no shortage of replacement waiters out there for the ones who quit.

                • Victor
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                  04 months ago

                  I’m trying to help the establishment, by changing their ways. Not by bankrupting them. And if they just keep changing waiters, surely the quality of service will go down and Darwin takes care of the rest.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    -14 months ago

                    Can you give an example of this “I give them money and expect their employees to quit unless they get paid better” strategy working in the past?

                    Don’t you think people boycott for a reason?

              • @Demdaru@lemmy.world
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                34 months ago

                Most people won’t quit, especially in the US from what I know. If they are already underpaid, how can they quit? And if pretty much every place treats waiters the same, what choice do they have?

                • Victor
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                  14 months ago

                  They won’t have a choice but to quit if we all boycott the business either.