‘Pure greed:’ Etiquette expert explains why tipping has gotten out of control

https://lemmy.world/post/8151509

it’s not your waiter’s fault that they’re stuck in a scam on the scale of a whole culture
Is it mine?

It is of you decide they can starve over it.

When sustainable wage ain’t the minimum wage tipping ain’t a reward for good service, it’s the wage earner’s solidarity tax.

It’s not the fault of the employer who’s underpaying them?
It can be multiple people’s fault at once. You’re still the one stiffing them until the law makes their employers pay them fairly, don’t like it, don’t use the services.
Tipping is depending on the kindness to strangers. Don’t like it, don’t get a job that requires tips to survive.

If you don’t want to tip then don’t ask for the service of tipped workers and get pissy that they ask for a crumb of solidarity while the fight for a living wage remains ongoing.

Don’t like tipping, go grocery shopping for your food and cook for your own selfish ass self.

Goes both ways. Don’t like it if a person decides not to tip, which is well within their rights? Get a different job rather than continuing to support an industry that’s exploiting your labor even more than most do.

Nah, you’re the cheepo who doesn’t wanna pay the real price for the service they’re getting.

People like you are why “but it’ll raise prices!” is viewed as a main argument against living wages.

Fuckin’ cheapskate you are, when you catch something when the barista you short changed spits in your drink, remember how bravely and nobly you carried the cross of “fuck you gimme a free burger.”

If you were trying to convince me that tipping is trash culture for petty, entitled dipshits, you’ve succeeded
Nah, the employers are the cheapos who want the customers to pay their employees’ wages. If an employee is such a raging asshole that they’d spit in a customer’s drink, they most certainly don’t deserve any kind of tip.