Comments by "Sky is really High" (@skyisreallyhigh3333) on "Chicago's Radical Solution For Broken Tipping Culture" video.

Should we ban it? No. Should we force employers to pay a thriving wage and the discourage tipping? Yes, but if someone wants to tip, thats their money to give to who they want.
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No. They should be paid well from the employer, not the customers. Claiming that servers deserve to be in poverty because they don't give the service you want is barbaric as fuck
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They are employees, not assosiates. Calling employees associates has always been propaganda. To be an assosiate you need to be a partner in the buissness.
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@doncherf2610 "Nope, if you don't ban tipping, you still have the problems and the anxiety that comes with tipping." Weird, many European countries have seem to have figured this out. They didn't ban it, its just discouraged. And again, who are you to tell someone who they can give their money to?
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@Dave102693 How do you plan to effectively ban it? How are you going to stop me from handing cash to other people? Are you going to penalize me, or the tipped person? Are you putting cameras everywhere to watch everyone at all times to penalize them to tip? Or would it be a completely unenforceable ban?
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@SirTopHat_ How do you plan to enforce that ban? How are you going to stop people from giving their money to someone else? Will you have servers who accept gratuity fired? Are we gonna fine people who tip? What's your method of enforcement?
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@thesquishedelf1301 It wouldn't be gone. They just wouldn't be allowed to tax tips. Guess what? Most tipped workers already don't claim the majority of their tips. Tips are also technically gifts, which are taxable even though the act of giving a gift is a form of speech.
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God damn the NRA and their bullshit
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@dominicgunderson How do you plan to ban it? What are your methods of enforcement going to be?
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@dominicgunderson "1. It would be illegal for all registers to include a tipping option. 2. It would be illegal for receipts to mention or refer to tipping" I'm willing to bet lawyers would argue tipping is a form of speech, and thus its a first amendment right and the law would be thrown out. "3. It would be illegal for waiters/waitresses to accept tips (and yes, they would be fired for doing so). Of course, people may still tip, but the culture of tipping would be shaken down." So you want to destroy the well being of servers all because they are fine accepting someone else's cash, which is really a gift. Tips are gifts. This is extremely authoritarian and frankly disgusting. "Enforcement would be largely unnecessary but could occasionally include inspectors and undercover agents." This would cost millions upon millions of dollars a year. You want to pay people a full salary with benefits to go out and spend money at food restaurants to maybe stop people handing servers small tips that are nowhere close to the amount we will be paying these officers and agents? You really think expanding the police state even more is what we need? You really think that's a good use of our limited resources? "Ultimately, the ban is less about punishing people for offering tips and more about destroying the culture of tipping." If your plan is to waste a huge amount of our limited resources to force employers to fire servers who accept what really is a gift, and on enforcers of the law, punishment is the point. Banning something never works and with how the American culture is, if you tried to ban tipping, servers would likely end up seeing more tips. I hope to god you are never given a position of power because you will be one authoritarian fuck
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@SingleTrackMined Again, they aren't a good server to YOU. They don't meet YOUR standards. They may also just had someone die and cant take time off work because they have no benefits at all. If you cant tip every server who is being paid significantly less than minimum wage, then maybe you need to stop going out to eat. You are a very entitled person
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