Dude there is a universe worth of difference between eating at a restaurant and being asked to tip like, a good truck or some shit.

Baristas post on their social media about giving non-tippers decaf all the time.

I’m completely unaware of this, and this is stupid.

You tip people who live on tips for a living, and in places of high, but not elite, quality.

It’s “how little can I tip before they tamper with my food”

Normal people never, ever think this.

As is this. I have no idea why people here are convinced tipping is somehow bad for employees and good for employers

It’s literally the same thing you just are more aware of it.

You literally always pay the wages of the people that work for companies.

I’ve made more as a server than most Americans make doing “appropriately compensated” work. Hitting median wage for your area as a server is easy in 95% of the US.

Their employer is treating them like a tipped employee, which is so embedded into society’s fabric that we have a separate tax code for it.

You not liking that is not any different from you liking a given law. You’re free to not participate, but expect there to be consequences, and one of those is for people to assume you’re intentionally being an asshole, not protesting a perceived injustice.

Dude algorithms are just computer programs. They’re not God.

At absolute minimum, it’s a nothing-channel with no views that hasn’t been picked up by their system.

Secondly, selling dumb bullshit isn’t illegal. There are lots of conspiracy theory videos on YouTube, and those are all dumb bullshit. Hell, Loose Change is almost certainly all over YouTube still

That’s not their business model. Their business model is hosting content.

Let’s do a thought experiment. Robert Reich is a popular left-leaning person in all forms of media. He’s also a liar, who plays down his own involvement in protecting his housing investment while constantly arguing for housing policy changes. He’s a NIMBY who wrote letters arguing against low income housing in his area, but consistently argues for low income housing.

Should all of his content be removed? If not, why?

FWIW I specifically chose someone whose politics I agree with, but who is demonstrably a liar and a hypocrite. Should I lose access to a person who I think is an effective voice, just because he’s a liar?

How did this get 80 upvotes lol

“YouTube doesn’t police these random one-video channels I’ve found with 28k views”! What a scandal!

You can make a YouTube video about literally anything, yes. That is the entire point of YouTube.

Things are honestly pretty fuckin rosy in the greater context of what could have happened

I always admit when I’m wrong. I rarely discuss things Im not correct about.

I have a normal amount of fetishes, yeah. That has nothing to do with this conversation tho.

I like girls in cow print bikinis. No idea why.

Lol I love when you guys do this weird shit

I mean it 100% tracks that a fan of communism would ignore reality and substitute their own

Secondly, by your very same logical chain, Capitalism is more authoritarian, as only the state and the Bourgeoisie call the shots, rather than democratic control.

This sentence doesn’t make sense. Capitalism is an economic system. One can be capitalist and authoritarian, as is the case with fascism, or one can be totally and completely laissez-faire as a state policy in some sort of Objectivist hellstate. Liberal Democracy is what keeps those things from happening, as a competing system of government.

structures like worker councils, Authoritarianism isn’t required in the slightest.

Those worker councils, to operate with any efficiency, will need a national council. To have any success whatsoever, this national council needs the authority to dictate what is made, where it is made, how much is made when, and where goods are to be shipped.

That is authoritarianism.

Communism does not require centralized control of the economy, as it is Stateless

You literally cannot distribute, and coordinate production of goods, to the extent Communism requires, without a centralized economy. You can have a centralized economy and no other state apparatus. I can’t imagine it succeeding, which is one of many reasons I’m not communist, but it is both necessary and theoretically possible. This is communist theory, not mine.

2: syndicalism and communism are economic theories, not systems of government. The system of government you are implying is anarchism. Anarchists are fine (if, in my view, very optimistic in their understanding of how humans work) . The system of government the vast majority of communists want is not anarchism, and I would not ban anarchists, even if they’re communists. The world will never just descend to anarchy, so it’s all a moot discussion anyway. We’ve seen countries slip into authoritarian communism in current generations.

Communism requires a centralized control of the economy and thus is not liberal

Liberal Democracy is the only form of government that rules by consent of the governed.