Unsympathetic
Many users blamed Aaliyah for her low wages. After all, America is a capitalist country, right?
As the online debate raged, some users rushed to Aaliyah’s defence – stating that it wasn’t her fault that she earned such low wages, it was the system’s: “The problem is, it shouldn’t be on the customer to begin with,” this user wrote. “It’s an excuse for restaurants to get away with starvation wages.” But the plight of servers is nothing new.