or even pseudo-incriminated for attempting to maintain our own life.

It seems so stupid that I’m like a suspect for wanting an exchange of information without dropping my pants and bending over. No, I don’t want cookies. Yes I want to read the article but no, I don’t want to “sign up.”

It makes me feel like being a f*cking hermit. But I prefer to pirate. Even though I’m not that good at it. Screw them. I got two private trackers, a VPN, and I hope that’s enough.

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      Fuck tipping. American tipping culture enables employers to get away with paying their hospitality service industry employees starvation wages. By giving a big tip you are just telling the employer “Don’t worry about paying your employees a living wage. I got you fam.”

      Obviously I still tip depending on where I am, but the minimum amount that is considered socially acceptable.

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          Honestly I think you should re-examine your perspective on charities. Just because they have some amount of administrative overhead doesn’t mean that they are always worse than simply giving money to a random person. That administrative overhead probably helps them operate at a scale that allows them to help far more people than a smaller organization could.

          Like, if I give money to a local food bank, that would feed far more needy people than if I went to my local restaurant and bought a bunch of take-out and then went down to a homeless camp and gave random people the take-out. Because food banks have supply chain connections and economies of scale that allow them to buy a lot more food for every dollar than you can get at a restaurant.

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        By giving a big tip you are just telling the employer “Don’t worry about paying your employees a living wage. I got you fam.”

        And what’s the alternative? Giving them nothing and telling yourself that it’s on them?

        Yeah no thanks. I hate tipping culture as much as the next guy, but this isn’t how you change that.

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          I literally stated my preferred approach in the last sentence of that comment.

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            Oh right so you’re a piece of shit. Got it.

            Maybe if you spent one day working food service, or any other job that makes $3/hour plus tips, you’d get it.

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              Maybe you shouldn’t take a job that pays $3/hour and then blame other people for why you get paid so little. My brother in Christ, you accepted the job.

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                “Maybe people should get jobs that pay more”

                Yo holy shit, I can’t believe nobody ever thought of that! Wow, thanks!