I'm noticing a trend of utilizing mental gymnastics to frame what benefits them personally as altruistic. This occurs often with policy (like student loan forgi

I'm noticing a trend of utilizing mental gymnastics to frame what benefits them personally as altruistic. This occurs often with policy (like student loan forgiveness), but this is most obvious with tipping. The staff are the ones who benefit from tipping the most. That's why the Starbucks union demanded it. Tipping does help businesses as well, but it's because of price discrimination rather than "panhandling". So long as you're a customer, they don't care either way. If you're happy to pay higher prices that get passed to employees, you should be happy to give that money to them directly. If you feel that tipping degrades your customer experience, that's a perfectly justifiable reason not to tip. Pretending that you're sticking it to corporations by not tipping just comes off as childish.