Michael Regilio
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2,071 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 12 Jul
Michael Regilio’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So businesses behave the way businesses have always behaved, like kids on a playground.
If everyone else is doing it, they have to do it too.
Except this isn't a playground.
And if you don't do it, you're not getting picked last.
You're going out of business.
Your competitors will bury you.
So no, the solution isn't to stop tipping your server, your DoorDash driver, or the barista standing there while the iPad stares into your soul.
They didn't build this system.
They're just surviving in it.
The real problem is that we've normalized a system where wages are optional, prices are misleading, and the customer is quietly expected to make up the difference.
So if we actually want to change, it's not about stiffing workers.
It's about asking why we've created an economy where companies can't compete unless they underpay.
Workers can't survive without tips and customers are constantly being nudged, pressured and psychologically manipulated just to complete a transaction.
So that is not a service economy.
That's actually a race to the bottom.
And if we want something better than, yeah, probably starts with policies and the people we vote for to implement them.
Because right now we're kind of all just standing there staring at that iPad being told it's just going to ask you a quick question.
Oh, really?
It was a good job?
Yeah.
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