• PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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    “Does that mean you’re going to harass the owners to pay them a living wage, Leon? Maybe hand them some literature, mount some social pressure or a boycott? Change the laws? Give the owners a pile of ‘tip’ money from you, to give to the workers as proper wages? Something?”

    “No. I like the owners. They sell me milkshakes.”

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      Give the owners a pile of ‘tip’ money from you, to give to the workers as proper wages?

      I think that last one might not be all that effective

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        I mean, something. That one gets the workers paid without them needing to enter into any kind of weird payment-is-voluntary servitude for it. It might also shame the owners into just abolishing the policy. Certainly it has a higher chance of success than just stiffing the workers and advising other shoppers to do the same.