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Tipping also supports tipping culture. Tipping should be abolished in favor of decent living wages which can not be done if you will guilt trip people who oppose tipping.

Also why tip someone for a job I'm capable of doing myself? I can deliver food. I can drive a taxi. I can, and do, cut my own hair. I did however, tip my urologist, because I am unable to pulverize my own kidney stones..

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This logic is all well in good if people are actually pushing for that living wage. In reality though it seems like a lot of people who don't tip are just being cheap and are are taking advantage of the fact that part of these people's pay comes from tips and are using that to basically get cheaper labor.

People who refuse to tip out of "principle" but also refuse to do anything to change the existing situation are just as guilty of exploiting workers as the employees who rely on tips are.

For what it's worth, the second paragraph (about refusing to tip for jobs they are capable of performing) in the comment you replied to is a direct quote of Dwight Schrute's character from the US version of the the TV show The Office.

oh do come on. as a society we have come to the conclusion that the value of an hour of labor is worth something. now greedy corps are skirting around the rules (restaurants and now ride sharing) and somehow a few greedy individuals are the problem.

stop demonizing the individual here - it's the companies that are skirting around the well established law. individuals are not capable of raking these businesses over the coals; that's what the government is, honestly, explicitly supposed to do.

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