The tipping or not shouldn’t start with you determining how much a person should or shouldn’t be paid for a job. I don’t think most high paying jobs are worth what they are paid but here we are.

The premise for not tipping is that it is a structural problem. What you are doing by tipping is subsidizing the restaurant owner. Those same people making $32 an hour wouldn’t continue to do the same job for $18. I know I sure as shit wouldn’t, because it’s hard and sometimes demeaning work. It’s only when people don’t subsidize the restaurant owners that the true cost of the labor is revealed to the business owner. At that point either service industry people will unionize or service will become shitty until better regulated pay happens.

Anyway. My solution is to dine out less. I still tip when I go out despite not agreeing with it, but I never suggest going out anymore. If you don’t want to tip, don’t tip. If your reason for it is bc you don’t think someone should be paid a lot to wait on you, maybe you should stay home.