If absolutely everybody stopped tipping in America this instant maybe something would change. But that's not going to happen, just as voting tipping away won't happen. It's incredibly easy to sway people who have no opinion on the matter (more than you'd think) to believe that tips are good and necessary and actually beneficial to the worker. And the people/entities most motivated to argue this (employers) happen to have the money to throw into shifting public thought on the matter. No, the only real solution is worker organization, and the only way workers can organize is if they have the resources (time, energy, money) to do so, also external support can help.
idealium
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A large portion of you in the replies don't feel like they should be obligated to tip because they feel it's up to the employer to properly compensate their workers, and yet they feel comfortable enjoying the product of these exploited workers' labor. My question to all of you is, if you care about worker exploitation, why don't you, the consumer, speak out against this practice directly? Call employers out, speak to the workers, see what you can do to help them organize. If you can't be bothered to do any of that, consider not dog-piling on the worker for the faults of their employer by deciding not to tip and making it harder for workers to organize. It seems to me that by not tipping, you're just helping employers and not workers.
I just don't get how not tipping workers is supposed to teach corporations a lesson. They'll just churn through willing bodies all the same.
This seems like a weird take. Put another way, you're withholding what you know to be fair compensation for services rendered as a form of protest against the company, but at the workers' expense? Just trying to make sense of your perspective.
Congrats on graduating and landing a full-time job! 🎉
As an RSS-enjoyer perhaps you can help me. I want to get better about using RSS to stay connected and updated with the world. Right now I'm using Feeder for Android and I've got some feeds from a couple news publications, some Rust dev feeds, and some of my favorite podcasts, but I find that I get little value out of this. Do you have any recommendations on how to squeeze the most out of RSS? How do you decide what's worthwhile to subscribe to?
I've been doing a lot of software interview prep, so much that I haven't done any "real" programming in a minute, which I miss. I don't really have any ongoing side projects at the moment so I've just been coming up with ideas and seeing how far I can scope them out before running into a wall. So far it's been mostly walls.
I've also been working towards getting myself medical coverage so I can get officially diagnosed with ADHD (or whatever I've got going on) and hopefully get on some medication. I've just been really feeling the struggle these days and I know I can't put off learning how to live with the way my brain works any longer, especially through the bleak slog that is the job hunt in 2023.
Hi I definitely didn't take 20 minutes to write and incessantly edit 3-4 sentences.
There's that "just" again. :)
buy and mail checks, balance your checkbook, and go in person to buy things, go to the bank, or get service
It's simply unrealistic to expect your average American to add all of this (and much more) to their routine and expect the benefit of ditching the smartphone to somehow outweigh the additional time and energy investment. Going in-person for anything in an average American city these days is far more of a hassle than it was "back then". This is at least partially due to the fact that our cities are built with cars in mind and not people, but that's a rant for another day.
I'm not sure what can be done on a smartphone that cannot be done on a computer.
Basically any form of two-factor authentication which is becoming increasingly more common and necessary for the average user to access anything from banking to employee services. Sure there are desktop 2FA programs that you can use in certain scenarios, but using these is often bad practice and defeats the purpose of even having 2FA in the first place.
Certain food or delivery services require you to use a mobile app to interact with them. Whether or not these services are essential or not depends entirely on the needs and circumstances of the individual.
I deleted my various reddit accounts years ago, checked out Lemmy briefly and then kind of forgot it existed until recently. Of course I wouldn't say I have ditched Reddit completely since I deleted my accounts, as I have often used it for personal research purposes and will likely continue to do so. Though I suppose I could migrate to searching a Reddit data archive or something.
I know you mean well but this is kind of a privileged take. Not everyone who wants to disconnect can afford to. It's kind of like how many people can't afford to just not use the internet, without it they will likely lose access to many essential resources.
"Just" not using a smartphone is viable for an increasingly vanishing portion of the population, in the US at least.
Happy to finally be(e) here! It was worth the wait for approval. 😊 I've been watching how the Beehaw team and community has been responding and taking action during this tumultuous period and I'm absolutely impressed. Looking forward to being an active member of this community.
A simple deterrent for this could be to "hide" some information in the rules and request that information in the registration form. Not only are you ensuring that your users have at least skimmed the rules, you're also raising the bar of difficulty for spammers using LLMs to generate human-sounding applications for your instance. Granted it's only a minor deterrent, this does nothing if the adversary is highly motivated, but then again the same can be said of a lot of anti-spammer solutions. :)