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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Minimum wage is not enough to compensate a server in a restaurant.[/quote]

The same argument can be made for every single minimum wage job, including those where tips are not customary. What’s the solution for those jobs?[/quote]

Solution to this in the US always had been "lifting yourself up by the bootstraps" and seeking better opportunities where these low wage jobs are a means to an end.  Many in service jobs have other occupations or dreams or ideas, often stuff that doesn't pay or may pay in the future.  They are banking on it while working low wage jobs.  Some work them while they are in college or between other jobs.  For those from generational poverty or recent immigrants it's a way to make the ends meet and if they aren't young enough and/or with promises of getting better prospects, they are often stuck there.  I don't think in the USA these jobs are regarded as something people do their entire lives or a career of sorts.  It's just something you have to do if you aren't born into money just to not end up on the skid row.   Been there done that.[/quote]

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