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A tip is supposed to be to spare the change, maybe leave a small bill or two to thanks for extra good service. Nowadays tips are going over $10, sometimes even $20 apiece.
Like others said people tipped to keep businesses and their workers afloat when we weren't eating out. That trend can't just keep continuing ad infinitum.
No, tipping in America actually did start as a way to pay wait staff...during prohibition and the great depression. The fact that here today, 100 years after that time, we have not phased out such an idiotic system is beyond ridiculous.