For the first time in my life, a number of people who aren't me seem to feel I should be paid better. But their leading solution to this problem (subsidizing my wage with tips or a service charge) is unfair, and their central reasoning for this need (that I work long, grueling hours) is over-simplistic. Like many of my tribe, I started in the dish pit, making $6 or so to wear strangers' leftovers and...