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How did the US custom of tipping come to exist in the first place? I live in a country where tipping is practically nonexistent, and I think I would feel severe
by chousuke 7y ago
How did the US custom of tipping come to exist in the first place? I live in a country where tipping is practically nonexistent, and I think I would feel severely uncomfortable with prices that don't actually correspond to what I'm expected to pay, even if the mental arithmetic is easy.
I hear that tipping in the US is necessary because of low wages, but I can't help feeling like it's dishonest business to shift the responsibility of compensation from the employer directly to the customers.
- munk-a 7y agoTipping came about during the great depression where restaurant owners lobbied to have the statutory wages of servers reduced to (by their expression) allow them to continue to employ them. It's weird because instead of taking the same approach taken elsewhere with the WPA to subsidize existing positions or nationalize some entities within that market segment.