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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020

      Arthur Chu Retweeted Mistress Emma Evans

      Yeah we need to talk about how the whole talking point "If people really LOVE your work, they'll give you money voluntarily, from the fullness of their heart" was always shitty but it's especially CLEARLY NOT TRUE for certain fields Like, obviously, pornhttps://twitter.com/MelanieMoore/status/1271690748476264453 …

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      Mistress Emma Evans @MelanieMoore
      If you don't make your living creating things, please shut your fucking pie hole about the financial issues of piracy and lost sales. Because you clearly don't know the issues creators face, you don't know the financial harm it does, and you're CLEARLY justifying your thefts.
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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020

      This is an overall issue with deciding to make payment voluntary (something online copyleft activists yoinked the anthropological term "gift culture" for without fully understanding the implications) Customers aren't better at setting prices than producers, they're terrible

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020

      Customers just deciding how much you should get paid based on their own judgment isn't liberation of the worker It's the EXACT OPPOSITE of that Like holy shit have you never actually had customers

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020

      Some customers really are just gigantic fucking assholes But that's not even the issue, the issue is that customers are STUPID They don't KNOW ANYTHING That's why they're customers and you're the worker, knowing things is your job

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020

      So this is an issue with "tip discrimination" We have this ongoing (horrible) natural experiment with voluntary payment by making waitstaff and other service workers tip-based professions And one fact that leaps out at you is that tip amounts don't track "service" at all

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020

      Like, the businesses have to fight hard against this, not because they love their workers but they need their workers to not actually starve if they want to still have a business They TELL YOU how much to tip, they've set a baseline standard (15% of the check) we all get told

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    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 12 Jun 2020

      But people still fuck it up All the time They wildly overtip or undertip because they just can't do math, or it gets lost in a whole complicated thing about splitting the check, or they're in a good or bad mood that day

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    8. Dan‏ @GoldenOkinawan 13 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      I tip 20% always and often increase that for very good service. I have very rarely stiffed a waitperson, and when I did, it was specifically for that person’s shitty service. I know it’s unlikely that it causes them to examine themselves, but, what can I do?

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    9. Dan‏ @GoldenOkinawan 13 Jun 2020
      Replying to @GoldenOkinawan @arthur_affect

      I don’t base it on anything but the service.

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020
      Replying to @GoldenOkinawan

      Unless this is because the person like literally insulted you to your face it's probably not having the effect you think it is

      12:34 AM - 13 Jun 2020
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        1. Dan‏ @GoldenOkinawan 13 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          *sigh*, I agree. And it’s probably a catch 22 because I think probably only the really good servers reflect on their performance, and the really good ones probably rarely/never deliver bad service, that’s what makes them pros.

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        2. Dan‏ @GoldenOkinawan 13 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect

          Now I’m thinking about Harvey Keitel wagging his spoon at Steve Buscemi.

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 13 Jun 2020
          Replying to @GoldenOkinawan

          It really doesn't matter There are so many interactions you have with other service providers where you have no ability to affect the person's compensation at all and we generally accept this

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