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Originally Posted by Alfisti
I will never, ever, ever in my life understand the tipping culture there is in the USA and Canada.
It is utter and complete madness.
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It basically started post-depression as a way for restaurant owners to get out of paying employees and it just stayed afterward. We have a bad habit of just going, "well that is how we always did it"
It's the samewith the wage stagnation issue, its been going on for DECADES here, wages haven't kept up with inflation forever so you're poorer for making more money. Everyone feels it but when you talk about changing it its:
1. Don't upset the system (south park had a good one about treating the economy like a vengeful god)
2. back in my day we survived for 3 months on 2 bits and a goats testicle and , by god, you can too! (ignoring the fact that the cost of an average house back then was like $3k and, adjusted for inflation, should only cost about $46k today, cost of education has increased 600% in the past 30 years, etc)
3. MARXISM, SOCIALISM, SOMESCARYISMIDONTACTUALLYKNOWWHATWORDSMEAN!
All while some of us are making more by simply HAVING money than we are going to our jobs (but I still gotta go to work).