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Topic	It is miserly to buy a bottle of water and not tip.
A_Good_Boy 02/06/23 12:17:30 PM #30:	Kajagogo posted... I was interested and I went looking for the history of tipping, and it was a way of rich people to show off their wealth. Tip is also short for To Insure Promptitude. Back in the 1890's most Americans were against tipping. It was also used as a means of racial oppression. During the time of reconstruction many jobs that black people commonly held had shitty wages and they were forced to rely on tips. It's why people of the service industry have a minimum wage of just $2, because at the time minimum wage laws were enacted those were black jobs and nobody wanted to pay them. --- Who is? I am! <cite>A_Good_Boy posted [p:971363050] in It is mise... [t:80337351]...</cite> <quote>Kajagogo posted... </cite><quote>I was interested and I went looking for the history of tipping, and it was a way of rich people to show off their wealth. Tip is also short for To Insure Promptitude. Back in the 1890's most Americans were against tipping.</quote>It was also used as a means of racial oppression. During the time of reconstruction many jobs that black people commonly held had shitty wages and they were forced to rely on tips. It's why people of the service industry have a minimum wage of just $2, because at the time minimum wage laws were enacted those were black jobs and nobody wanted to pay them. --- Who is? I am!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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