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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
And over the years they’ve gotten us so used to it that we shit on each other for not paying a companies’ employees ourselves. I get it to an extent - the system sucks but if we choose to participate in it, we just have to pay up.

That’s usually the food service industry though - I always tip my tattoo artists/barbers well as well just because “it’s what you do” but I’ll never get that. You set your own prices for the job, so just…charge me what you were gonna charge me plus 20% to start with?
gpt
Totally agree. I think they reason they choose tips vs factoring them into prices is because they don’t want to be held accountable. When you’re underpaid, your employer is the asshole, when you’re undertipped - the customer.

If the entirety of the US were to boycott the tipping culture, it wouldn’t be “America vs greedy corporations underpaying their workers”. I believe we’ll see something in the lines of “greedy people stopped tipping so minimal wage workers are now homeless and starving to death as a result.”

If that were to happen, I can see the announcements from big companies already: “We have no control over how much people tip, since it is not mandatory. We pay wages in accordance with the US law.” or some other BS like that