[seoulmetro]

>If you were in this situation there are plenty of ways to correct the course.

He is correcting the course. The course of the silliness required to expect people to tip for everything because your contract with your employer is bad.

[schneems]

You’ve chosen to miss the point of my story to go on a personal rant against tipping. In the process you’ve also decided that the billionaire needs defending more than the person struggling to make a living wage.

[seoulmetro]

Yes... I commented on the part of your story I wanted to comment on. What's your point?

I didn't decide anything about billionaires anywhere. But if that's the story that keeps you being silly then so be it.

[schneems]

You’ve invalidated my reason for sharing the story in the first place. It feels that you’ve done it intentionally, but I’ll give you the benefit of a doubt. Here’s how I could have shown up and validated your viewpoint instead of arguing because I felt mine wasn’t heard:

Before you go on a tangent try validating what the other person said before. “I can see how really rich people view money differently. As a tangent, I really dislike tipping culture and wish that Warren had bought the rafting company and decided to pay them a living wage instead of doing nothing and not acknowledging the problem”

If you’re struggling you can lean into non violent communication:

- Observe: I see you’re talking about tipping - Emote: it makes me disgusted that regular people are taken advantage of - Need: I wish all tipping was abolished -Request: I want my position to be heard.

> I didn’t decide anything

But your words, lacking this additional context I’ve laid out here do speak to my interpretation because that’s the part of the story I care about, it’s why I shared it and it’s why I labeled the implications of your words as I read them.

[lotsofpulp]

>wish that Warren had bought the rafting company and decided to pay them a living wage instead of doing nothing and not acknowledging the problem”

Warren Buffett is probably the most outspoken rich person to advocate for the government to increase wealth redistribution via increased taxes. He also has probably donated some of the biggest sums in the history of the world to objectively benefit poorer people.

Yet here you are, concluding that Buffett does not acknowledge excessive wealth gaps from the fact that he did not donate money to a specific worker working for a business he paid to receive a service for, or that it was somehow Buffett's responsibility to buy the whole business as a form of charity.

[seoulmetro]

I don't care about your story, that's why I only commented on one sentence alone.

If you don't understand why I am talking about that sentence, then ok?

You seem to care a lot about other people knowing your poor employee and employer arrangement is silly. You shouldn't. Dumb people do things through tradition.