> You don't seem to see a lot of things. I don't recall mentioning anything else. What your basis for making this claim? > Tipping reduces the tip receiver t

> You don't seem to see a lot of things. I don't recall mentioning anything else. What your basis for making this claim? > Tipping reduces the tip receiver to a prostitute. At the end of the day, a prostitute is also a service provider engaged in a fee-for-service transaction. Scrape away the emotion-laden woo-woo here, and I don't see that there's anything much of a substantive argument -- it seems completely proper for a portion of a service provider's compensation to come directly from the party who the service is being provided to, regardless of whether there's some other middleman in the transaction. You're trying to project your own prejudices onto others here, but I doubt the people who are happy to make higher income via tips than they otherwise would are going to agree with you.