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Nearly half of Americans say tipping has ‘gotten out of control’ (www.independent.co.uk)

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With those tipping screens now seemingly everywhere, Americans think that the practice has “gotten out of control,” according to a new survey.

At least 63 percent of US residents now having a negative view of tipping, up from 59 percent last year, according to Bankrate, a financial publisher and comparison service.

Yet, the number of Americans who have gotten used to tipping has gone up since the COVID-19 pandemic, when it slipped. There have not been significant declines in tips for service providers, the survey noted, particularly for hairdressers and restaurant servers.

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[–] wondrous_strange@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Have never worked a job that earned me tips, but it seems to me that everyone who holds a full time job should not be required to rely on kindness of strangers for their livelyhood.

Regulations should be such that they mandate all employers to pay a liviable wage.

If that causes places to shutdown, let them greedy bastards shutdown. The market will correct itself.

Continuing as it is today is bad for everyone but the employers and capitalists.

[–] propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe 11 points 1 day ago

The argument told to useful idiots is that servers are encouraged to work harder when they rely on tips.

For the rest of us that aren't dumbasses, we can see that if a server isn't doing their job properly, then they can be fired and replaced.

We can also recognize all the servers that bend over backwards and end up getting no tips or something very small.

As usual, tipping culture only exists because stupid Americans have been conditioned to work against their own interests.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s not kindness anymore. It’s peer pressure. That’s why people hate it. If it was true kindness then it would be totally private: i.e. you’d decide whether or not to tip the next day when you’re at home alone, with no one watching.

[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

And there's the crux, right? It's not a kindness, and it never could be a kindness because that's their actual wages. It isnt peer pressure, it is a conscious understanding that the person you are tipping is literally counting on that tip to pay their bills. You're paying them because their boss won't, and that is rightfully starting to piss people off.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If that's bad for your business, can you really call yourself a capitalist?

[–] wondrous_strange@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

For short term gain? Hells yes.