[jsprogrammer]

Of course, the pricing of resources should be complete and incorporate all costs. It is certainly unacceptable for tips to be required to make up a living wage.

However, no one should be under the delusion that the consumer is not responsible for those costs.

[bmm6o]

I'm not sure who in this scenario you think is delusional, or if you're conflating being delusion with being uninformed of the specific employment arrangement between the people you interact with and their employers. Excuse me, they aren't employers anymore, it's a contractor/"logistics match-making company" relationship now.

[jsprogrammer]

It is neither.

Certainly a business should follow the rules of its market, but I think that we agree that the expectation of a consumer is that the price they pay covers all expenses + profit.