My wife worked as a waitress for years going to college. She started out at a sit down 100 different burgers place but ended up in a place with stained glass booths and had to wear an evening gown and gloves (The Broker in Boulder). She made friggin’ astronomical tips and waited on people like Mick Jagger.
The first secret to high end waitress? Memorize everything. No writing. The next? Learn how to anticipate what they need and make it appear like magic at their elbow. Don’t be part of the experience. In fact be no part of the experience.
“noting that the victims tend to be older workers, women and blacks.”
One of the first important things I learned from Uncle Milton (Friedman) was that minimum wage is one of the most racist laws on the books in modern times. IIRC, he said that the unions had a hand in that many years ago to keep the manufacturers and other such places from hiring blacks at cheaper rates.
Just last night, the perceived 'value' of the waitress' service was less than what we expected.
Was it reflected in her tip?
Probably...
Hmm, I have been thinking about this for a very long time. Instead of letting the left misdefine capitalism, why not repeat its most basic definition over and over until everyone knows it as well as they know Marx’s falsehood (from each, bla bla bla)?
Capitalism: let each person be rewarded in proportion to his contribution to society.
In recent years, Republicans have taken heat for their reluctance to accept evidence of man-made global warming. But the refusal to accept science is far worse on the other side of the aisle.
Nope. It isn’t that Republicans refuse to accept the science, but that they demand to see the science. In 30 years or so of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) hysteria, we have yet to see a scientific explanation of the mechanism by which the amounts of a trace gas retains a disproportionate quantity of solar energy to where it actually causes the temperature to rise. In fact, every time we come across mention of AGW, we should challenge its advocate to explain exactly how this works. After all, if it is based in science, it should be pretty straightforward to explain.
Meanwhile, the “solutions” proposed to combat AGW are scary: anything that removes CO2 from the atmosphere in such a way that it becomes unavailable to living organisms is, very literally, an existential threat to ALL life on earth. Although, given the grandiose suicidal ideology of the left, I cannot be sure that global extinction is not the ultimate goal.
It is RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants by flooding the labor market with ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.
The fact is, many, perhaps most, Democrats are unequal for the simple reason they are not equal.
Whining about inequality seems to be more effective than working to obtain equality. Bernie will make them equal
New York is about to pass a law that prohibits retailers from charging more for women's products than substantially similar men's products, under the misguided belief that the cost of the women's products will go down. The reality is that retailers will simply increase the cost of the men's product or resign the products so that they are no longer substantially the same.
Could everyone in America live above the poverty line if only employers were less greedy?
Raised income levels qualify
more and more as povertized—
We drop the expectations
for their public education
so they become less able
to keep food on the table—
Thereby their income stays, you see,
within the realm of poverty.
A few may still climb out, so then
the limits must be raised again
and schools told to ask less of them
who can’t eat self-esteem.