Raising minimum wage or putting a social safety net in place so we have no working homeless or unfed children.

It has become a gatcha game, you put time in and you might get something worthwhile out of it, or you might get more poverty

I read this article too and I don’t see where npr is saying this is ok. They are giving these workers a platform to express their side of it but what the workers are really saying is that they are being exploited financially. This main guy being interviewed says he loves doing this but the laws are allowing the business to subsidise his wages based on customer kindness. That is clearly not ok, the tipped minimum wage is clearly not ok.

“If there is some means of tipping that’s available to you, that should signal to you that workers there aren’t being paid enough,” says Schenker.

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Kurt Vonnegut, 1953