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title: Fuck Tipping
points:
- title: Tipping is hostile to customers.
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Businesses embrace the tipping culture so that they can offload the
responsibility to pay proper wages onto their customers while
still selling their products with a high profit margin.
So the customer pays the margin twice — it's already
included in the bill, and in the tip you're "supposed" to
leave.
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Furthermore, tipping is manipulative in nature.
It exploits customers by using their egos, as well as senses of guilt
& duty.
Sometimes, even peer pressure!
Personally, I'd prefer to just pay the bill.
- title: Tipping is hostile to workers.
description:
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Bosses can use the knowledge about their workers' tips against them.
While the income from tips is often low & unstable, bosses will
still use them to refuse salary increases, health insurance upgrades,
etc.
Therefore, tipping destroys the power of employees during salary &
benefits negotiations.
- title: Tipping encourages bias.
description:
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The tipping culture promotes unfairness and bias, because customers are
prioritized based on their perceived generousity (and treated
accordingly).
- title: Tipping is awkward & lame.
description:
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Anybody can remember countless times they were trying to collect enough
cash from people at the table to make for a "decent" tip.
Or the awkward, rushed calculation of the number to write down in a
special "Tip:" field that you know the waiter will inspect momentarily.
Or the stupid iPad tipping machines that are now part of the web
folklore?
Jesus Christ, give me a break.
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Don't Tip!
Tipping fucking sucks for everybody, don't do it.
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