{"id":54590,"date":"2015-08-05T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54590"},"modified":"2015-07-29T10:28:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T15:28:58","slug":"the-new-consumer-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54590","title":{"rendered":"The New Consumer Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the olden days, waitresses got less than minimum and earned the rest in tips.\u00a0 It created a moral obligation to tip: if you can\u2019t afford the tip, you can\u2019t afford the meal, you owe her a tip as part of her wages.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel3000.com\/money\/with-new-bump-minnesota-ushers-in-regions-top-minimum-wage\/34379846\">Now that waitresses make $9.00 hourly<\/a>, they don\u2019t need to rely on tips to supplement wages.\u00a0 They can quit trying so hard and I don\u2019t need to feel guilty about not tipping, right?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, why not? \u00a0Every other consequence of political manipulation of wages is unintended; why should quality of service be any different?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: In the olden days, waitresses got less than minimum and earned the rest in tips.\u00a0 It created a moral obligation to tip: if you can\u2019t afford the tip, you can\u2019t afford the meal, you owe her a tip as part of her wages. Now that waitresses make $9.00 hourly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[283],"class_list":["post-54590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","tag-minimum-wage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54591,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54590\/revisions\/54591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}