In the US, if the server doesn’t meet minimum wage using tips the balance comes from the business to ensure the serve has been paid minimum wage. Actual minimum wage, not server minimum wage. All tipping does is subsidize a restaurants labor costs.

Not tipping will definitely lower the income of a server since a lot make over min wage off tips. Labor laws need to change for servers so they aren’t in an exploitable position and have to rely on tips to live and deal with power tripping customers who think servers are their slaves b/c “they’re paying their wage”

He’s sending troops in to finds the kids

Let’s go a step further and look at why people are in burnout, are overloaded, are working 3 jobs to make ends meet.

Its because we’re all slaves to capitalism.

Greed for more profit by any means possible has driven society to the point where we can barely afford to survive and corporations still want more. When most Americans are choosing between eating, their kids eating, or paying rent, while enduring the workload of two to three people, yeah they’ll turn to anything that makes life easier. But it shouldn’t be this way and until we’re no longer slaves we’ll continue to make the choices that ease our burden, even if they’re extremely harmful in the long run.

I moved to a rural location and your four points are exactly how it is. I have to harass my doctor to get them to put in referrals. My wife had to go and physically walk a referral from the doctor to the hopsital across the parking lot to make sure they actually got it. Then stayed and scheduled it right then b/c getting a callback for scheduling is a crapshoot.

No