Servers don’t want a living wage, they want tips, and they think their job is harder than equivalent jobs so they deserve tips instead.
In a serving sub that I was suggested, someone was complaining that they didn’t get a tip because of a forced 20% gratuity being auto added. I asked if they would have preferred to get a living wage instead and the arguments and mental gymnastics that these food service workers go through… Like really, as a worker at trader joes, I had to cashier, bag, restock, help customers find stuff, offer samples of food, and bring food items to the public from the back when something wasn’t on the shelf. I had to do a lot more than what a server has to do and barely got above minimum state wage. These guys won’t even take 50k/yr (for context, that’s more than the majority of American workers) instead of tips because they make significantly more than that.
The argument this person has was that basically “if you don’t pay us extra to be nice to you, we won’t be nice” which is ridiculous. If I was an asshole to my co-workers and clients at my job just because I wasn’t being tipped, I wouldn’t get tips, I’d be fired.