The single dollar I tip a bartender for getting me a glass of water doesn't actually cover their labor costs for being there to serve me The understanding is that I am being subsidized by the person who orders 4 or 5 overpriced mixed drinks, because they probably have more money
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
And when you attack the underpinnings of these systems as being "irrational" ("Why should I have to tip based on a % of the bill?") you have a point but you aren't seeing the big picture of why that system exists and how if you remove it you gotta replace it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
Like, publishers are right that, regardless of the merits of ebooks to the consumer, ebooks have been very damaging to the industry in terms of price point People *perceive* the cost of an author's time and labor as being tied up in the physical book
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
And people *perceive* that a digital file is "free" (because it's so easy to copy and share, or it feels like it should be) and paying for it is a "tip" It somehow *feels different* to copy a file than to steal an actual book Even though that's total fucking nonsense
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
"If I steal a physical book I have deprived someone of its use and that is fundamentally different from copying a file" Bitch the actual dead trees in that book cost like a total of $1 max to physically print in that form You can take as many of the physical objects as you want
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
The price of a hardcover book was always a *ticket price*, it's an admission fee to get to see the text in the book before anyone else That's how the industry actually works, that's what the price is meant to cover
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
And the fact that when there's no dead trees people see this price as illegitimate is actually pretty fucking disastrous
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
It's like what they're saying now about trying to keep "live shows" alive with COVID-19, how if you don't physically enter a building people get all pissy about having to buy a "digital ticket", as though the price of the literal seat is legitimate and the show itself isn't
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
And it's like yeah, everyone knows "leakage" happens One person buys a book and then shares it with their family Someone buys a ticket for one movie and then spends the rest of the day "hopping theaters" Every so often a shoplifter swipes something from the counter
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
And in aggregate it's not a big deal, whatever, it's price discrimination Most -- but not all -- of the "freeloaders" are people who legit can't afford it, it's the price of doing business Once in a while someone hangs out at the bar all night munching peanuts and water oh well
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The issue is when they make it into this *moral crusade* and they don't just do it but they actively say everyone should do it, you have a fundamental right to do it, and actively attack the older system as bullshit If there were a "JUST TIP ZERO" social movement
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
Like if everyone literally got together and started saying "WE REFUSE TO TIP" and it became an increasingly common thing to stridently go "I'm a zero-tipper, you can't make me do it" Well, waitstaff would suffer and most restaurants would end up closing down
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Replying to @arthur_affect @lawnerdbarak and
If you're an accelerationist like Mr. Pink from Reservoir Dogs you might think this is all good, that it's just a step on the road to bringing the whole system down and enabling revolution Meanwhile the actual person currently waiting your table might disagree
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