Thanks for explaining. And jesus, if this is not late capitalism then I’m not sure what is. Through the phenomenon of tipping everyone becomes a Caeser-like ph

Thanks for explaining. And jesus, if this is not late capitalism then I’m not sure what is. Through the phenomenon of tipping everyone becomes a Caeser-like philanthropist, making life or death choices based on the perceived suffering and performance of their precarious underlings. Meaning waiters, and other service industry workers, compete for crumbs by trying to make other people feel like "the golden child of their day", in a system that systemically undervalues and underpays them (that's putting it very lightly). David Graeber has a great name for service workers, he calls them 'the caring classes'. [1] In another article he writes about the British working class: "In other words, the historical defeat and humiliation of the British working classes is now the island’s primary export product. By organizing the entire economy around the resultant housing bubble, the Tories have ensured that the bulk of the British population is aware" [2] In a talk he gave he says despite technology increasing the productivity and therefore some wages, "in the caring sector the exact opposite has happened. Digitization is being used as an excuse to make lower productivity so as to justify the existence of this army of administrators" [3], in Britain this has created a "cheerful, creative, and subservient working-class population who, drawing on centuries of tradition, know exactly how to be butlers" [2] [1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/26/caring-curse-working-class-austerity-solidarity-scourge https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/26/caring... [2] https://thebaffler.com/salvos/despair-fatigue-david-graeber https://thebaffler.com/salvos/despair-fatigue-david-graeber [3] http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/managerial-feudalism-revolt-caring-classes/ http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/managerial-feudalism-r...