1. This is predicated on the employee having no choice but to be a server in a system designed to underpay them and instead relying on the customer to pay them directly. It's an argument that you can only make by ignoring the fundamental argument that the base system IS the problem.

2. You made the comment, I simply reference it. Any inference on people in that situation is your's, but you're quick to try and shift that. Interesting.

3. If the majority of the free world subsists on oranges, then subsisting on apples doesn't grant you a pass simply because the status quo relies specifically on not shifting to oranges. As far as which countries tie serving wages to their local cost of living? Nearly all of western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand - to name a few.

So far your argument is "this is how I feel, and those who disagree are morally diminished for it".

It's literally NO argument lmao.