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A Boring Dystopia
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Isn't that what servers make in the US? when I lived there in the 90s, minimum wage was 4.25/hr, but the servers in the restaurant I worked at were making 2.35/hr, and that wage hadn't changed since like the 70s or some crazy shit.
$2.13/hour. In 2025. Fucking insane.
De jure, the restaurant has to make the difference up if they make less than minimum wage after tips. De facto, wage theft is about twice as much as all other forms of theft combined.
Yeah lol, I was gonna say how many underpaid tipped workers do you think know about that requirement, and of those few how many do you think actually confront their boss about it, and of those handful how many do you think get that money they're owed without retaliation.
I know not what many of those numbers are, but I'd be absolutely floored if that last number weren't zero. Especially in 2025 and beyond.