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indepndnt
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What do you suppose "self insured" means?
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for sticking it to big corporations, but we could just be honest about what we're saying: I don't care if shoplifting costs retailers money.
You're 100% right on the second point, though, they anticipate some amount of shrinkage when setting prices.
I tried that once. I died.
That's a good question, I doubt I could make a very accurate guess. Just broadly though, based mainly on the lack of an immediately obvious payoff, I'd guess less than 50%.
It amazes me when I spin up some random server on a cloud provider and it's immediately getting tons of traffic from bots searching for insecure ssh servers and default WordPress admin credentials and then like. If that's the short of stuff they're counting, I'd believe it. But yeah, it's not like all the commenters on this post are bots.
They never said autistic, but there were a couple of times when other characters were talking about him or he was talking about himself that it was clear that they were talking about something more than quirkiness. Maybe you didn't watch every episode, or you missed the euphemisms that people use to talk about neurodivergence because you don't hear them as much.
The difference I see with supersonic jets is that our hypothetical scenario is all about an instantaneous occurrence, whereas jets start at a standstill and accelerate up to that speed relatively gradually, meaning there is some opportunity for air displacement to begin before the jet arrives and occur over some marginally longer time period.
Wait, are the commenters in danger?
The path to change through customers decreasing their tips would be:
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Workers who rely on tips for income make a lot less money, many of them suffer. There is no impact on the companies.
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Workers who can, move to different industries. There is less competition for these roles, and they are filled with less skilled and/or more desperate workers. Companies employ more draconian tactics to compel performance, which the more desperate workers will tolerate.
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Eventually the quality of service will deteriorate to an extent that customers will start to notice. Most customers won't really care. Companies will raise prices to compensate for the few customers who leave.
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Given the money saved by not tipping, customers won't mind the higher prices. Companies will tout their record profits on earnings calls with shareholders.
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Eventually some kind of legal or political action will be mounted to challenge the minimum wage exception, now that "tipped employees" don't make minimum wage when counting their tips any more. Most people don't feel like they're affected and don't care. Companies lobby the government to ensure it is not successful, or if it is, to ensure that it is toothless and won't impact their earnings.
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Companies raise prices more with the excuse of the recent actions. Customers are now paying more than they used to when including tips. Workers are poor and abused. Shareholders think these companies are winners and invest more.
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Problem solved?
I'm just pleased to see so many comments talking about dealing with your phone before you drive. Thank you all.
Right front or right rear?
You included a question mark, but I feel like you already answered your question...