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by rvba 1615 days ago
Supposedly he should know the ins and outs of labor law, yet he struggles to provide any applicable analysis how to solve the problems.

Obviously low pay is the biggest one, but things like lack of breaks to go to the toilet is something very solevable.
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l8rpeace 1615 days ago
Yes! And how policy can have unintended consequence is HUGE. Why doesn't he really even mention that? It's upsetting that among the many observations that "people, tip more" ends up being the final thought and not "we created a system that affords all of this behavior, " not one that works with known conditions.

Sure, I personally think people should be more generous, but they aren't obliged to be generous, I don't really fault them for not being more generous, and if lack of generosity is a condition of the system, he doesn't really have a good argument for saying "we crafted a system knowing people aren't generous, please be more generous so our system works."

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kevin_thibedeau 1615 days ago
> Sure, I personally think people should be more generous

I think people shouldn't be expected to show generosity with an arbitrary subsidy.

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l8rpeace 1615 days ago
Yes! There cannot be an expectation of goodwill, especially with policy. While I personally think people should be more generous, I can't believe that policy should depend on it. Thank you for pointing this out and I will work to be more clear.
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