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Culture is a complex thing and probably shouldn't be anthropomorphized like this. I see no reason to believe someone came up with this cultural norm for an iden
by School-Cotton 2y ago
Culture is a complex thing and probably shouldn't be anthropomorphized like this. I see no reason to believe someone came up with this cultural norm for an identifiable purpose, as opposed to it having just evolved randomly in response to various factors.
Tipping seems terrible for restaurant owners since it lets waiters capture an unusually large share of the value of the product.
- NegativeLatency 2y agoThe actual origin would be hard to say but it took of in America for some very specific reasons https://time.com/5404475/history-tipping-american-restaurants-civil-war/ https://time.com/5404475/history-tipping-american-restaurant...
- pessimizer 2y agoBut you're just making that up. It evolved almost instantly after the US Civil War as a way to employ newly released slaves without paying them. It was described as a "new idea that had just come from Europe." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/12/16/fact-check-tipping-kept-wages-low-formerly-enslaved-black-workers/3896620001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/12/16/fac... https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tipping-jobs-history-slave-wage-cbsn-originals-documentary/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tipping-jobs-history-slave-wage... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opinion/minimum-wage-racism.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/opinion/minimum-wage-raci...
- rangerelf 2y agoI bet that if this bit of history was more widely exposed, "tipping culture" would be exposed as the degrading practice that it actually is.