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Lyft and Uber allow you to tip your driver. If you feel like they're not payed a sustainable wage, why not voluntarily give them more money? I suspect a signif
by cdoxsey 8y ago
Lyft and Uber allow you to tip your driver. If you feel like they're not payed a sustainable wage, why not voluntarily give them more money?
I suspect a significant number of riders are pretty well off. Why not be exceedingly generous? Tip the driver 10 or 20$.
- lawrenceyan 8y agoSounds like a pretty unsustainable business model to me.
- chii 8y agoI do not like the idea that tipping is required for sustainable pay. tipping should be a bonus, for a job well done. Tipping is meant to be a reward for extra-mile service. Tipping is NOT for just merely doing the job. By making tipping part of sustainable wage, you're just subsidising the wages that the employer should be paying. It's both unfair and unethical.
- cdoxsey 8y agoI'm paying the person I received the service from. Me handing someone extra cash is neither unfair nor unethical. If you feel like Uber is doing something wrong there's a trivial solution. Just pay your driver more. Sure it doesn't solve Uber's problems, it doesn't change the behavior of anyone else, but it does solve your personal culpability. (If you feel you have such culpability)
- siedes 8y agoTipping is horrible and incentivizes the worker to prioritize people who tip/ are likely to tip and underperform for people who do not/or are likely not to. You can see this play out in the food service industry and it is horrible and only contributes to a culture of soft-discrimination.