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Most people feel entitled to the value of their labor; tipping is merely the incidental mechanism that yields that value. Put another way: we don't have any re
by woodruffw 3y ago
Most people feel entitled to the value of their labor; tipping is merely the incidental mechanism that yields that value.
Put another way: we don't have any reason to believe that the author is abstractly "pro" tipping, only that he (shrewdly, like most people) recognizes tipping as a local optima that he has no real control over as a service worker.
- changoplatanero 3y agoThe only way to reach the global optimum of no tipping and higher wages would be for customers to start to refuse to give tips.
- woodruffw 3y agoNot really. That only punishes the worker, not the interested business. Tipping is pernicious precisely because it doesn't have a real disincentive in a culture that's already normalized it. The only real solution is unilateral legislation, without waiting for the culture to change.
- jstarfish 3y ago> Not really. That only punishes the worker, not the interested business. [...] The only real solution is unilateral legislation, without waiting for the culture to change. The day unilateral legislation gets enacted will be the day restaurants replace most of the wait staff with ordering kiosks and automated drink dispensers. Waiting on government to fix your problems is a fool's errand.
- changoplatanero 3y agoIt indirectly punishes the business because it raises the minimum salary that workers will accept to work there