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One perspective on tipping that made me feel a little different is that it can act as a form of progressive pricing or a sliding scale or “pay what your can aff

One perspective on tipping that made me feel a little different is that it can act as a form of progressive pricing or a sliding scale or “pay what your can afford” It allows places to keep base prices as cheap as possible, which means lots of people can afford to eat out, but people who can afford to pay more can do so. It’s sort of like raising the minimum wage but but having the costs only impact people with higher incomes. Yes, plenty of rich people are stingy and terrible tippers, so it’s not a perfect analogy. But I try to tip a lot everywhere I go and that’s how I think about it.

yieldcrv 4y ago
You are just doing the same class division we’re pointing out but consumer to consumer. Even sillier than the worker to consumer reality. Corporations are in competition with other corporations, which is why there is not dynamic pricing. They are not offering anything worth more than they are offering. Your perspective fails on those merits when the solution is to pay employees correctly and see which corporations were never economical after all.