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rob05c · 3809 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Gratuitous Injustice of American Tipping Culture
Yeah, I worked fast food for a summer, but moreover, I grew up on the poverty line. It's hard to form a high opinion of the economic system when you're 14 and your mother has to choose between buying food or paying the electric bill. Some of the hardest-working people I've met make blue-collar wages. I tip well because I make more than them, and they work just as hard, and I find that logically incongruous and morally repugnant. I appreciate the opportunity to reduce the inequality the tiniest bit. That's probably also a large part of why I'm inclined toward social liberalism.Waiting tables is tough work