r/FluentInFinance • u/Peace_And_Happiness_ • 9d ago

You Disagree? Discussion/ Debate

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u/OcclusalEmbrasure 8d ago

I’m just curious, when you get a haircut, do you pay them enough for a living wage, including the cost of business operation?

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u/cuhdeee 8d ago

I actually do even though you weren’t asking me lol, I pay my barber what most people make in a day but he does a good job and deserves a tip 9/10

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u/OcclusalEmbrasure 8d ago

And how much is that?

I find it curious that you say “but he does a good job and deserves a tip.” It sounds like you put a qualifier on it.

If said barber does a poor job, shouldn’t you still pay them a living wage?

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u/cuhdeee 8d ago

Well you’d still pay for the fee of the haircut cause he provided a service to you lmao, but I sure wouldn’t tip him for doing an unsatisfactory job, haircuts at my barbershop are around 50, and I’ll give him that in a tip so most of the time my haircuts are 90-100

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u/OcclusalEmbrasure 8d ago

It’s interesting that you’d be willing to exploit his labor for a subjective judgement of their work. If someone put’s in the work, they should be paid a living wage.

$50 post operating expenses is below livable wages.

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u/cuhdeee 8d ago

$50 for 45 minutes worth of work is below livable? So he at that rate he could do 6 haircuts in 6 hours and make $400 not including his tips in a day and you say that’s not livable wages lmao be real, he could make upwards too $800 a day depending on business and how hard he works, 5 days a week shit 4, that’s $1600 in a week that’s $51,200 my guy not amazing but definitely livable lmao

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u/OcclusalEmbrasure 8d ago

You obviously don’t know how the business works.

If you’re the owner barber, you have to pay for the lease, cap expenditures, materials, utilities, and legal fees.

If you’re not the owner, you pay a percentage to the owner, as you are “renting the chair.”

Either way, that $50 is not coming back to the barber in totality.

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u/cuhdeee 8d ago

Make a better argument stop baiting

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u/OcclusalEmbrasure 8d ago

It’s called logic. You made the premise but do not live by it.

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u/cuhdeee 8d ago

Your argument has no legs.

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u/OcclusalEmbrasure 8d ago

That’s funny because you fail to counter the argument so you just jump to saying it has no legs.

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u/ForeverWandered 8d ago

Because you’ve squarely caught them in their hypocrisy.

We all know every single person here crying about rich people would act exactly how they hate rich people to act the moment they get their own bag.

It’s really obnoxious when people are so blatantly self service about their moral philosophy 

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u/cuhdeee 8d ago

Not in this context, lmao good try though