It would be better to just eliminate the tipped minimum wage and have everyone earn the same minimum wage (and raise that wage to at least $20 an hour). Banning tipping would be hard to enforce, and some people like throwing some extra change in their favorite barista's jar every morning. But if everyone knows that they're all getting a living wage, and your tip isn't a lifeline to servers, it will actually feel optional.
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Just gonna add a source to back this up:
The no-tipping policy lasted just six months at Chang’s Momofuku Nishi. Claus Meyer, a Noma co-founder, announced in February that he was ending the no-tipping policy at his own New York restaurant, Agern, after two years, citing slow business as a result of the higher menu prices. Gabe Stulman reversed course at his restaurant, Fedora, after four months without tips, telling Eater that guests were ordering less food than they had before.
People are dumb. Even if they should know they're saving money overall by not tipping, they see a higher number and think it's bad.
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It probably would have been a wider field if it weren't for Mills. Schumer pushed her into running, and since everyone knew the DNC would throw a lot of money behind his pick, no one wanted to get in after that. They couldn't have expected the establishment candidate to flame out before the primary.
Conciousness, what makes you, you, is not your brain functions.
This is an extremely debatable assertion that scientists and philosophers will still be debating long after you and I are dead, but empirically, the evidence is pointing towards, "No, your consciousness is just a byproduct of that lump of meat in your skull." Phineas Gage, for example, discovered that a huge portion of what made him, him was actually his left-frontal lobe.
We could argue about conciousness, the soul, and the ship of theses for hours, and it would all still be opinion, but what is not opinion is this; your consciousness is being run on meat hardware, physical damage to or a chemical imbalance in that hardware will effect your consciousness, and it is constantly running processes, even when in sleep mode, until it is permanently shutdown. Based on that information, I would not let anyone disintegrate my brain, even if fhey reassembled it perfectly.
Never bought into the whole, "sleep is the same thing," argument. There's no period during which your brain functions cease during sleep. They slow during non-REM sleep, then reach near waking levels once you enter REM, but they never end. That's not remotely like having your entire body disassembled at molecular level and rebuilt somewhere else. One is essentially like a computer that's screen has gone idle while it performs background tasks. The other is like transferring all of your files to a new computer and then throwing the original into a woodchipper.
Read the room, Yahoo Scout.
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If you've spent the last 8 months calling Platner supporters Nazi apologists, but you didn't mention LaFlamme once, it's time to admit that you just like internet fights. Platner is an extremely problematic candidate, but his platform proved that progressive-populism is more popular than centrism in purple states. Getting his voters to support a better progressive-populist in a state with rank-choice voting was not a heavy lift, provided you actually wanted to do that.
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Yeah, being distrustful of Platner is one thing, but a lot of the Platner discourse is being generated by doomer leftists who can't wait to tear someone down. You can basically tell who has genuine concerns about Platners history and who gets off on complaining by whether or not they mention Andrea LaFlamme.
That's why I've had this random fruit box for 6 years.
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Woah buddy you want to make a bet Donald trump won't be president in 3 years?
Yeah, I expect him to be dead in less than 2. He is looking pretty rough these days. Vance may try to fuck with the peaceful transfer of power, but I doubt it. He clearly doesn't have the charisma or balls to be the face of a fascist regime.
I also doubt Platner is a Nazi and I'd say that, even if it turns out his rhetoric is hollow and fake, you're better off gambling on him than centrists like Mills or Collins. But a lot of people disagree, and they're gonna be up Maine's ass about it until the election. It's just one of the drawbacks of having a competitive Senate race.
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OK, but you understand why people aren't just worried about their own senate race, right? Donald Trump won't be president in 2 to 4 years, and limiting the damage he does to our democracy in the meantime depends on what voters in a handful of states decide to do. The Senate is significantly more powerful than the House, and most of us will never vote in competitive Senate race.
I get it; I'm pretty fucking sick of Platner discourse as well. But what Maine and Texas decide is going to effect all of us for the next 6 years, and more crucially, it will determine whether or not Trump controls half of congress for the remainder of his term. It's not reasonable (or accurate) to tell people, "butt out, this doesn't concern you."
Imagine if someone tried to have you murdered by a mob and this was the harshest criticism you could come up with.
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Senators serve 6 year terms, and their terms are staggered so that only a third of them up for reelection during any given cycle, so there are only 33 (maybe 34) other elections to worry about right now. Factor in popular sitting senators who are unlikely to receive a primary or general challenge this year, and there are really only a handful of senate seats tor people to be concerned about. Off the top of my head, I can only think of Platner/Mills and Paxton/Talerico for the general elections, and the primary between Markey/Moulton (and I'm not sure if that has national attention or it's just news to me because I live in Massachusetts).
YUP. I once had someone tell me that the educating people on Marxism was more important that voting, because giving more people an understanding of theory would bring about a post-capitalist society. Meaning, "actually, my internet arguments are very important."
If you don't believe in electoralism, fair enough. It's certainly hasn't been serving us well the last 40 years (and especially the last ten). But if you're going to judge everyone that engages with the political process, then you better find something better to do: join a grocery co-op, organize a union, start a commune. If voting isn't the answer, do something else. Something besides talking. (Anecdotally, I've found anarchists are more likely to do something community oriented, or at least risk getting their heads kicked in at a protest, than a lot of other leftists I've known).
Yeah, AOC's record on Israel isn't as good as Tlaib's or Omar's, but it's still better than 95% of Democrats. Only an idiot or a liar would call her a Zionist because she didn't vote for a symbolic amendment for a bill she voted against anyway.
Also, you'll notice that the people who gleefully brand her a Zionist or a Neoliberal never have an alternative to tell you about. They'll tell you why every promising progressive is actually an imperialist, or why the DSA are actually corporate shills, why no one is actually a real leftist, but they never have someone they actually want to get elected. They just want to say "no," or at best, they demand, "next," without doing any work to find that next person.
Well, we could start sending him some red meat gift baskets, but it might get a little pricey.
Fetterman has certainly been acting more erratic since his stroke, but he actually wasn't as progressive as people wanted to believe. He was always a hard-core Israel supporter, and he once held a black jogger at gunpoint because he saw a black man running and assumed he committed a crime.
Also, there is nothing the voters can do to remove a sitting Senator. The only way for him to be removed is for two-thirds of the Senate to expel him, which isn't going to happen. Depending on Pennsylvania's laws, either the Governor would appoint a Senator until the next election, which the Republicans wouldn't support because they like Fetterman fucking over the Democrats, or Pennsylvania would have to hold a special election, which the Democrats wouldn't like because it would leave them short a vote for weeks (maybe months), and an unreliable vote is better than no vote. Either way, you're not going to find 67 Senators willing to expel him.
You know, Fetterman has talked openly about his struggles with suicidal ideation. Just saying, with the right letter campaign, we might be able to solve this one.
In fairness to Newsweek, based on the sentence before this, I think they mean, "many in the party establishment," not, "many people in general."
She brings significant energy to the primary among younger voters, but some in the Democratic Party establishment believe her progressive policies could alienate swing voters in the general election. Many believe Harris lost in 2024...
Yeah, I haven't seen any recent data on this, but I suspect that $20 an hour still isn't a living wage. I remember hearing before the pandemic that the, "Fight for Fifteen," was outdated and needed to be the, "Fight for Twenty," and we've had two rounds of astronomical inflation since then.
If the minimum wage was appropriately adjusted, most people in the service industry should be able to make a decent living. The only group that will be difficult will be people who work in vacation towns in remote areas. Some of those people earn their annual income during the tourist season, and even if they wanted to work in the off-season, there just aren't enough jobs. Restaurants can feasible raise prices high enough to subsidize there employees during that time either, so the only real solution is a UBI system.