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Gremlynn posted...

"bUt YoU Don't HaVe To!"

Cool. Brilliant deduction. "Not being a shitty person is optional!"

Disagree.

You are encouraging the problem.
Companies even advertise and deliberately create businesses on this con, and people like you fall for it and happily defend it by demanding the customer pick up the tab.

• It's a shitty system to defend,
• it 100% benefits the companies so they dont have to pay staff,
• 100% guilt needs to be directed at slime ball companies who still practice this,
• again the history around tipping in the US is based on companies intentionally being shitty, and conning Americans its your moral obligation (or not) to make up the difference. Either way less money the company has to spend.
• Tips are not equally distributed to staff. The people being tipped are not actually guaranteed decent tips thanks to a system that offsets a company paying its staff an actual fair wage. This point in particular is not really being grasped by many.

Pushing these companies to pay the people they employ a decent wage would correct many of the above problems.

I mean, do some research on the history of tipping here in the United States. It's absurd many defend tipping culture. You are unwillingly or willingly encouraging the problem.

TLDR:
Literally your "s***ty person" rhetoric easily applies to your deduction that it's the customers responsibility or moral obligation.

The s***ty person where I stand is the ones who tote this line and emphasis of thinking that if a company doesn't pay a decent wage, the customer has a responsibility and obligation to pick up the companies tab to pay its staff. People who spin the narrative that the customer is the s***ty person if companies don't want to pay its staff.

You are encouraging the problem. Basic history of tipping in the US should not be defended.