I 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

I 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.