The way to vote with your wallet on this is to not go to the restaurant, not to still go and then be an asshole to the underpaid staff.

To be fair, a lot of this probably isn’t even intentional. Tipping just isn’t nearly as much of a thing in Europe and people just forget. And also these people being tourists are usually not people with access to a kitchen to cook their own shit in, so unless you wanna cook instant noodles in your hotel room kettle you’re kind of bound to places that serve you food.

You can blame the europeans here for not knowing or even intentionally not conforming, but tipping being a heavily debated difference between US and EU catering culture is really old news and all these pub owners also could’ve just factored the tip into the price they already inflated for this event anyway. You can’t blame people for thinking their 15 dollar beer includes the service.

So it still just circles back around to stingy employers if you ask me.

Assuming AI is really going to take these jobs full stop, something else needs to happen outside of people reschooling themselves for blue collar work.

I understand there might be a temporary uptick in required blue collar work as we prepare infrastructure to handle this bullshit but we definitely don’t need everybody that’s currently doing any kind of office work to be an pixie or pipe wrangler.

There are no AI safe jobs in this context. There are only jobs AI can’t do yet. But they aren’t safe. The remaining people will flood whatever job market is left if something doesn’t change and then people absolutely won’t be making a 100k with no degree. Besides, if AI is really going to take most of the white collar jobs it’s only a matter of time before those robots get good enough to take blue collar jobs too.

Also by telling everybody what to do (become a plumber or electrician in this case) you’re creating the same problem in the long term we have now with all the people that were told becoming a developer was the future and now find themselves with a crippling debt, meager income, and bleak prospects in the job market.

Everything is new at some point. They aren’t weaker for long if you keep pouring enough money into it.

In any sane country receipt price is what you get back if the issue cant be solved, price matching in reverse isnt a thing.

Samsung allegedly not “being able” to resolve the issue is doing a lot of heavy lifting here as there drives are very much still being actively sold and, in fact, in stock.

Should samsung eat the cost of issuing a new disk for goodwill?

Samsung needs to honor their warranty by replacing a defective product with a functioning product.

And what cost would they be eating? They make products and cover these product under warranty. Replacing a percentage of these should have already been factored into the price. These drives are expensive to us now due to shortages, not because Samsung has suddenly incurred massive additional costs in fabricating them. They just make more money sending them elsewhere.

They say that in a paragraph where they attempt to limit their liability, not in the part where they inform you of their actual warranty policy.

But I guess we’ll find out in time where this ship ultimately runs onto land.

It also draws a bunch of negative attention to Samsung for this scummy move. Ideally more media pick this up.

That samsung doesn’t have a replacement drive in stock is a blatant lie. They just want to sell him one for the inflated price.

They never used to give you full refunds when these drives lost value over time. And if they did it wasn’t what you paid origionally. Now their price is ballooned and suddenly they are eager to do so.

It’s extremely clear what Samsung is doing here.

Edit/Addendum that i take no credit for:

Evidently it’s against their own warranty terms: https://semiconductor.samsung.com/consumer-storage/support/warranty/

In the event Samsung determines, in its sole discretion, that the Product suffers from defects in material or workmanship and does not substantially conform to the published specifications under normal use, for as long as You own the Product and during the limited warranty period, and subject to the conditions and exceptions stated in this Agreement, Samsung will, at its option, either: (1) repair or replace the Product with new or refurbished Product of equal or greater capacity and functionality; or (2) refund the then current market value of the Product at the time the warranty claim is made to Samsung if Samsung is unable to repair or replace the Product.