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Originally Posted by ResAlien
I’m sorry I’ll try to clarify. See he’s supporting exploiting labour by frequenting these hotels that pay their cleaning staff next to nothing and justifying not tipping the staff by saying it’s not his problem to pay them. Which is true it isn’t. But see by continuing to give those hotels his business and money he is supporting the exploitation of those employees. One could choose to tip to assuage their conscience in a scenario if it did bother them, or one could say F those nerds that’s fine too. Heck you could even say you’d only stay at chains that you know pay their employees a proper wage and that’s why you don’t want to tip. But saying it’s not my problem it’s the employer’s problem when you’re actively supporting the employer is intellectually disingenuous. It is your problem because you are actively helping it exist.
The amazon Walmart whatever stuff is akin to the “yet you participate in society i am very smart” meme. Yes exploitation is bad everywhere you nailed that. Nothing about those examples though is material to the discussion about tipping hotel employees and the specific poster whose opinion I chose to comment on. I apologize if the post’s scope wasn’t wide enough in your mind but when you try to expand a reply to a separate conversation that’s far removed from what we were discussing it isn’t the gotcha you think it is. That’s my fault for not spelling it out more clearly.
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It wasn’t intended to be a gotcha. You were being a dick and wanted to come down on someone for not tipping in an area you tip despite the places where we tip and don’t tip being completely unrelated to the difficulty of work or level of exploitation. You chose to bring up worker exploitation as a reason to tip. If that’s the reason for tipping then it should be your consistent reason for tipping.
Your concern for these workers is disingenuous.