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Don't forget your software development consultant. I wouldn't mind an extra 20% :) I'm not convinced of your point, but I wonder how far you could take it. Do
by stephenboyd 10y ago
Don't forget your software development consultant. I wouldn't mind an extra 20% :)
I'm not convinced of your point, but I wonder how far you could take it. Do you tip your kid's teacher, your professor, a librarian, your doctor, your doctor's assistant? What if the referee is actually wealthy and does it for the love of the game? You'd have to make explicit judgements about every job's place in the socioeconomic hierarchy, and not everyone is going to appreciate getting grouped with the waiters.
- padobson 10y agoI think everyone is overthinking my comment, which I was surprised to find was the most controversial thing I posted here in weeks. I like your take, because it questions where the line should be, and my answer is, how generous do you want to be? I'm not saying people should tip because they get good service, or because the service provider is poor or because they want to encourage specific results, either in the present or in the future. I'm saying people should tip, full stop. I am also in no way suggesting that people should be forced, coerced, or otherwise compelled to tip. That's definitely not generosity. Generosity is good. Sometimes goodness can be goodness regardless of the result. I could care less if it makes a waiter work harder or makes them entitled. That's an entirely different and mostly unrelated problem to getting people to be more generous.