I mean, I am comforting myself by saying what I already have is good enough which is why I don't need the steam machine. I know they are not the same.

most workers don’t know them well enough

Or can afford to hire a lawyer to go after the company that employs them for wage theft.

That will only happen when we stop tipping

Don't tip, but also don't think your not tipping is going to change anything except that the people who work as servers who might have liked now think you are an a-hole. I am sure you don't care about this either, also fine, you don't have to care about any other person, place or thing, the world will go on.

All of these things you name are not the servers fault, yet the server is the who gets all the hate and the reduced pay due to the problem people have with tipping. No-one says - wow fishermen get paid terrible but also they don't deserve money for work. I am going to stop buying fish. Every one gets paid like shit, shit on the system not the worker. Fix the system, don't punish the worker for working within the system.

I wanted one, but not for this much. Glad I got the first gen steam deck when I could. Steam deck + dock is pretty much the same thing.

No, if you stop tipping the servers just get paid less and the owners feel nothing for not paying them a fair wage. If you really want to make a change, don't eat out any place that makes you tip, if you have ever seen a tip jar or a tip screen, don't go there. That is how you vote with your wallet, you don't make the workers subsidize your food and not tip.

This comic was not made by someone experienced what its like to work at Applebee's in Oklahoma before, that is for sure.

The source you are quoting is a US law that says tech workers don't qualify to get paid overtime if they are on salary or if they are paid more than $27.63/hour. This has nothing to do with minimum wage, this is a law specifically made to not pay developers overtime for crunch.

Maybe "extreme" was the wrong word, I mean divisive. Its unnecessarily divisive and makes me not want want to label myself as a vegan even if I do only eat plant based.

I am doing the one where you don't eat any animal products or use any animal products. The reason I chose to do this is personal, I am not adopting any ideologies.

They could not have done it. This cat was definitely with me, on my couch napping like a cute little fuzzy-wuzzy-snuggle-bunny when the hotdog went missing.