Are we the baddies?

Post by bigfatkitten » Sun, Jul 06, 2025, 10:58 PM UTC

lazystar wrote: post #404

giingyui wrote: post #390

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There is nothing I would like more than seeing tipping implemented in retail. And then the more you think about it the more you realise everything should have a tipping option.

personally id love to see something like tipping implemented in frontline support. kpi's that focus on monthly case resolve goals and TTR are incentives that reduce quality, and 5 star kpi's are easily gamed. if customers could tip frontline support engineers based on their experience with a support case, we'd see quality go way up.

Post by const_cast » Sun, Jul 06, 2025, 11:03 PM UTC

southernplaces7 wrote: post #450

const_cast wrote: post #419

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This sounds good and like a protest but it's not because: 1. You're not hurting the big wigs who exploit workers. They don't care if you don't tip. 2. You ARE hurting the underpaid, exploited worker.

> You ARE hurting the underpaid, exploited worker. What? No, you're not hurting anyone. You're going out to eat and expecting to pay for what you ordered, not the life subsidy of someone whose employer can't be bothered to pay them well enough. Either way, it's not and shouldn't be your obligation even if it does screw with the waiter's finances. I too might have financial squeezes that make it difficult for me to fo…

Post by jen20 » Sun, Jul 06, 2025, 11:34 PM UTC

bko wrote: post #353

jen20 wrote: post #285

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Taxis in the US are one of the most regulated services around, and they were still utterly atrocious. Sure, they’re mandated to not refuse service, but you try getting picked up in Manhattan with a suitcase mid afternoon (when it’s obvious you’ll be taking the fixed fare to JFK in heavy traffic). To this day, the meter being “broken” is a tactic used in taxi strongholds like Las Vegas, even with this regulation. The…

> Taxis in the US are one of the most regulated services around, and they were still utterly atrocious. Maybe the fact that they were the most regulated services around was exactly why they were atrocious. Regulation often erects barriers to competition. It's impossible for a regulatory body to spell out every way in which a company can be exploitive and disallow it. The only thing that prevents bad behavior is meani…

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jul 06, 2025, 11:38 PM UTC

al_borland wrote: post #186

tossandthrow wrote: post #118

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> make you comfortable while you exist I don't think there are many proponents of that type of ubi. The way, at least I, see ubi is absolute subsistence - with a right to earn above that without affecting your subsistence. IMHO something along UBI is needed for a democratized market economy - and I think the Scandinavian countries are the support for this claim.

If everyone gets an equal raise (whatever the UBI is), wouldn’t the entire market simply adjust to price that in, leaving everyone in the same relative position?

Post by protocolture » Sun, Jul 06, 2025, 11:48 PM UTC

bragh wrote: post #256

zbentley wrote: post #236

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I recommend being very honest with yourself here, whether or not you want to share it in a reply. Is the low chance of bad consequences the only factor keeping you from talking to strangers? There’s a low chance of bad consequences when you cross a busy street, too. Is fear of rejection by an individual or group a factor, too? There’s a much higher chance of that happening, but it’s far from life ruining. Are you wor…

The risks and consequences of crossing a busy street are nowhere near as unknown or potentially severe. Wait until all the traffic has stopped, look to your left and your right and behind your back (typical situational awareness during bounding overwatch), cross the road. Even if something very rare and extreme happens, nobody sane will blast you on social media for failing to dodge a meteor or a suddenly exploding c…