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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This comment section is all people missing the point.

The point of the post is that a particular job will generally stabilize at a particular pay. If it's a tipped position, then the employer will pay less, so that the overall income is roughly at that stable income for that position, including the overall average tip.

So people who tip less than the average are free riding off of the people who tip more than average, where that worker will make an average tip overall, which comes more from the generous tippers than the stingy tippers. Thus, it effectively transfers money from generous tippers to stingy tippers, on net, in the long run.

The merits of this system, whether servers deserve to be paid more, whether we should push for reforms so that this isn't the system, is besides the point. The post is making an observation of how things actually are, not advocating for how things should be.

[–] cyberblob@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No worker should depend on tips. Problem solved

[–] exasperation@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And yet, people do.

Should we just ignore the dynamics of that system, and pretend it doesn't exist? Or can we make observations about that system, and analyze its effects?

[–] cyberblob@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de -3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

change is meaningless without prior analysis.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 8 months ago

what the fuck does this even mean

[–] cyberblob@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, well, it is Not that difficult.