The worst part of working this kind of job is knowing that, say, if the restaurant is really busy and chaotic, you may be rewarded for this in terms of the total *number* of tips, but the average tip will go DOWN to compensate
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I'm running out of steam talking about this but there's so many examples of projects -- whole GENRES of projects -- going under because people are willing to pay for it, while being totally willing to pay for all kinds of shit they don't care about nearly as much
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This whole set of biases that makes no sense -- freeform podcasts are "worth more" than professionally edited writing, even if the latter takes objectively more hours to make
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I'm not saying this is a problem created by the "gift economy" and "tipped professions" rather than just being a general problem But if you take negotiating power away from the seller to the maximum degree -- they can't force you to pay anything at all -- it gets so much worse
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