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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel great when everyone is paid a living wage.[/quote]

I was about to say this. No one else find this post super icky and self-congratulatory?[/quote]

OP here. You know what I, personally, can't do? Guarantee everyone a living wage.

Here's what I CAN do:
1) Vote in ways I feel is consistent with my social values.
2) Advocate for policies I feel are consistent with my social values.
3) Create jobs in my organization (CHECK)
4) Tip well when and where I can
5) Start feel-good threads

I've done good in the ways that I have the capacity to do good today. Have you?[/quote]

Omg you’re insufferable. [/quote]

No, she or he is quite entirely correct.

If you do not want to tip, eat at home, do not stay at hotels, and carry your own luggage. Saying that people should be paid a living wage and thus you’re off the hook is too often a cover for contempt for “menial” workers. [/quote]

This post is piggy backing off of the debate over whether you tip hotel maids and how much, which is not intuitive to many folks, hence not commonly done. Also not all tipping involves bringing somebody up to minimum wage as it does with the restaurant industry. When folks use the living wage argument, they do so inconsistently, such as for the hotel maid but not their grocery cashier, etc. Ultimately this ends up with posts shaming those who are more discretionary with tips or can't afford to tip excessively beyond basic norms (i.e. restaurant servers). The post is passive aggressively judgmental.[/quote]

That's your opinion. You do realize that you don't have to participate in threads that don't make you feel good, right? [/quote]

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