Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes

Re:Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes by LudwigNagasena on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:15AM (#34500059)

> Just one example is that their daily coffee is subsidized through the misery of minimum wage coffee shop employees.

Your everything is "subsidized" by low wages of people living in third world countries. US coffee shop employees aren't quite near the bottom of that hierarchy.

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Re:Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes by kbos87 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:22AM (#34500113)

100% true but doesn’t invalidate their situation. If we follow that logic to its end, there’s always someone in worse shape who is also further removed from those who have the ability to make a difference.

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Re:Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes by LudwigNagasena on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @05:16PM (#34511345)

Do you think you have no ability to make a difference for them?

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Re:Is tipping getting out of control? Many consumers say yes by kbos87 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:23AM (#34500119)

I don’t disagree, but are you suggesting that we shouldn’t act to solve a problem just because it isn’t the worst possible problem? Feels like a convenient out.

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