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They don't work for me, they work for the restaurant owner who is offloading their salary onto me under guise of a "tip". Fucking leeches feeding off our working class and you act like we're the problem for questioning this predatory system.
I never said don't question it, I said it shouldn't be that way! But it is that way right now, and we are responsible for how our actions affect others, even in an unfair system.
I agree with everything you're saying, but you going to the restaurant and not tipping hurts the server, not the owner. They spend time and effort for basically nothing in return, and even if you disagree with the system in place you are still using it to get cheaper food (because resteraunt costs are subsidized by tips to staff) at the expense of someone who in most cases can't afford it.
It you want to hurt the owner in the short term, don't go.
Eventually of course this means less serving jobs, again hurting the server.
So the best option is getting rid of tipped minimum wage. Easier said than done, but it's the only real way to fix this.