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DisasterPieceKDHD OP t1_jd5ofr2 wrote

Okay thank you. I’m just freaking out a little bc I know cops treat driving without a license seriously and when my wallet got stollen I didn’t even think about license thing I was just thinking about my money and debit cards in my wallet and now I’m worried I’m gonna go to jail for driving without a license

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Black863 t1_jd5nc8s wrote

Quite the opposite. We should eliminate the minimum wage. This will increase competition. Because really, there’s no such thing as “making money”. Nobody makes money. They take money. Because whenever you get it is has to come out of somebody else’s pocket. Every morning, the barista TAKES five of my dollars for my coffee. And every morning I TAKE seven of her dollars out of the tip jar while she makes it. We’re both entrepreneurs, but in this case, I’m the better one.

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rambolo68 t1_jd5mstw wrote

What we all have to ask ourselves is which system maximizes the take home pay for servers? If you go to minimum wage they will make 30,800 a year if they work 40 hours a week X 52 weeks. I would think with tipping they make a lot more and can work a lot less hours. It would be interesting to see this piloted across the spectrum of different restaurant establishments and see how the servers like it. I know servers who make between $ 200-400 a night with tips and only work 6 hours. I think they would quit if they were being paid $15/hr and then had taxes taken out of that. But if you pay minimum then tipping will have to go away because most will not be able to afford to dine out. I say this based on recent data we’re it said over 40% of the population was working paycheck to paycheck.

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