[Cry if I Wanna]

Your ‘living wage’ dream is about to become real in Seattle, I hope you’ll be around to analyze the labor/wage consequences of $15 minimum wage.

You misunderstood. By living wage I mean that waiters would be paid what the job is worth - let the market set that wage/value just as it does for all other jobs. My assumption would be that the pay would be competitive, especially for someone with a solid resume.

[txhurl]

The Market HAS set the wage. Great waiters make great money at great restaurants, lousy waiters make the inverse.

Your experiment with ‘changing the DNA of capitalism’ will fail, is failing spectacturaly, I wish you’d do something else with your time, like waiting tables.

[txhurl]

let the market set that wage/value just as it does for all other jobs.

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You mean, let new LAWS set that market wage. SEIU troll.
Did you not notice the SCOTUS just justifiably set you back on your extortionist heels?

[CharlesWayneCT]

I knew what you meant by the context.

[C. Edmund Wright]

By living wage I mean that waiters would be paid what the job is worth - let the market set that wage/value just as it does for all other jobs.

THE MARKET DOES set the wage: it has decided that tipping on a merit system will be the wage. I know in your cloistered academic world of being a gummint employee…you have zero concept of the free market. Your wage isn't set by the market. It's no doubt too damned high. You don't understand anything about the market…..or as txhurl said, how tipping infuses "the DNA of capitalism" into the food/bev industry. And it does, at every level.