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> But few industries (none outside food service?) work this way. I guess apparently Amazon, DoorDash, and Instacart do! > 100% of the tip goes to the driver.

> But few industries (none outside food service?) work this way. I guess apparently Amazon, DoorDash, and Instacart do! > 100% of the tip goes to the driver. That's verbatim what happened! They just omitted the additional fact that they would decrease the base pay, like in the food industry. > Cutting costs on the backs of your dynamic and more economically vulnerable labor force feels cheap and immoral. Sure is! But restaurants do that too! The difference is, a rich, single, 35+ year old male programmer can be righteous about Instacart. I mean, they don't cook for themselves, they don't tip their Amazon drivers (they didn't know you can do that!), they eat out, so who cares if the tips are taken away. But virtue taking away your right to pay $50 for a dinner-for-one at Burma Love? Fuck that, they say. They're hungry.

justinpombrio 8y ago
> That's verbatim what happened! I call BS. Money is fungible, so "of the $10 we gave the driver, $5 was from you and $5 was from us" doesn't mean anything outside of the stories we tell. All that happened in terms of bank transactions was that you gave Amazon $5, and Amazon gave the driver $10. That said, there is a good way to tell whether they're getting your tip or not. Ask how much more money the specific driver you tipped received than if you hadn't tipped. That's right, $0. (On the other hand, I bet if you tipped more than the base pay, the driver would get that much. So big enough tips probably make a difference.) Though what really matters is what the courts say :-).