I disagree, he hasn’t shown that the amount of unreported tips each year is substantial enough to even affect social security. Especially in a world where more and more transactions are completely cashless. You know what makes a bigger difference? Undocumented migrants that work under the table.

According to https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/08/20/key-findings-about-u-s-immigrants/

“7.6 million immigrant workers are unauthorized immigrants,”

And https://immigrantdataca.org/indicators/median-hourly-wage

“in 2019, the median hourly wage […] $13 for undocumented immigrants”

So $13 x 40 hours x 52 weeks x 7.6M workers = $205B of untaxed income

According to https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/02/how-much-do-waiters-really-earn-in-tips/385515/

“Nationally this adds up to as much as $11 billion in unreported (and untaxed) income.”

Let’s also talk about wage theft because https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/owed-employers-face-little-accountability-for-wage-theft/

“According to one estimate from the nonprofit think tank Economic Policy Institute, reported and unreported wage theft could amount to as much as $50 billion per year owed to workers.”

So tell me again how workers are the ones causing the problems.

See: https://kbin.social/m/antiwork@lemmy.fmhy.ml/t/211224/-/comment/883504

Holy bootlicker batman, that’s why we’re saying tips need to go, employers need to just pay them a decent hourly wage.

And again, if the corporations lobbied for the tax burden to be moved from themselves to the poor, who stole from who first?

In 1960 businesses paid 52% per corporate income tax over $25,000. In 2020 they paid 22% for all income. https://taxfoundation.org/historical-corporate-tax-rates-brackets/

Corporate income taxes made up 23.2% of the U.S. governments income in 1960 while individual income taxes made up 44.0%. But in 2018 corporate income taxes only made up 11.3% of the U.S. government’s income where Individuals paid 49.8%.

But please, tell me again how endless programs borrowing against social security and rich people refusing to pay their share are okay but a waitress not reporting the $50 she made in cash tips is the real problem.

Lol, this guy is worried about workers not paying their taxes.

To my knowledge there really aren’t any downsides to a diagnosis, as a matter of fact you may even have new legal protections under the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA: https://autismsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/ADA-Fact-Sheet-1-1.pdf

You also have a right to not disclose your diagnosis per HIPAA, so long as you wouldn’t need an accomodation.

As someone who has worked a lot of retail, they’re saving 8-16 man hours a day MAX. The national average hourly wage for a cashier is $13.81, so that’s $110.48-220.96. You still need to maintain manned registers so you have bodies for closing duties and a pod of self checkout registers still requires at least 1 body to run them. During non-peak hours it’s perfectly reasonable to only have 1 register open with a pod of SCO’s, and that register is mostly so you can sell alcohol and cigarettes. For closing you still need 3 or 4 bodies to deal with the after work rush and closing duties like trash, counting tills and other miscellaneous duties.

Self checkout only is a tool to improve the productivity of 1 person, some people are just upset at how effective they are, as shown by their prevalence. The real reason to be pissed off is that they don’t care, you’re still going to buy the same amount of stuff, you probably won’t even make any changes to your purchasing habits. This is underscored by the trend of retailers locking more and more inventory behind cages and lockboxes, and sales don’t go down, some retailers even think they result in more sales because more product is available to be purchased.

P.S. As someone speaking from the employees point of view, the biggest issue comes from the fact that consumers want to shop on the weekend to comply with their mon-fri lifestyle. Which in turn means someone else has to give up their “weekend”. This alone accounts for most of the issues I’ve seen post covid with staffing shortages, nobody wants to work when their friends or family aren’t, and they’re not getting any incentive pay for working the crappy hours. As a society at some point we have to recognize that this absurd obsession with weekends leads to most of the frustrations we’re talking about. If people could more evenly distribute their alotted time to do chores we wouldn’t have these gigantic lines to services that nobody wants to work at.

As much fun as setting up a torrent box is, being an argumentative asshole is even better.