An overall tax rate of 40% is extremely high; in most places, even those with mandatory social insurance on top, low-wage work like DoorDash doesn't get that kind of cut.

> The whole tipping culture is a big question itself and one of the leading cause for extremely low wages

Potato, potahto. American work culture in this area is just very strange, a huge collective action problem that people can't dig their way out of because the discourse is so dysfunctional.