Comment on Tipping culture npcs

• JargonWagon@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It was, and I still tip 10% unless the service was truly exceptional.

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• iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It was in the 1970s.

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  • SkippingRelax@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Non American so bear with me.why the % would go up? Prives have gone up considerably, 10% now should be like or better than 10% then or am I missing something? Is there a point in the future where someone says 113% was okay in the 2040s but not now?

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    • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s basically an artifact of how pay is set. The USA has a system where pay for certain professions is adjusted only by a new law. Since in capitalism the capital class has power over policy and the working class does not, the tendency is to resist increasing salary.

      Now for most workers this would simply be untenable, but for jobs that get part of their income through tips the workers can make up the difference by increasing the portion of their income they receive through tips.

      So over time the tip rate has increased. It’s actually an interesting proxy for how fucked capitalism has become in the USA. The higher the percentage of cost that workers need to receive semi-formally through tipping, the more the imbalance between capital and labor.

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      • SkippingRelax@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Still doesn’t make any sense. We all know how the tipping system works, it’s funked but that’s not the pint here.

        A fixed % of a restaurant bill in the 70s, 80s or 90s should give hospo workers the same amount of money adjusted to inflation so if 10% was good enough money then, it should be now too.

        Hell, I could argue that prices have gone up at inflation rates while salaries have remained stagnant, so a fixed % of an inflated restaurant bill makes hospo workers the only ones that actually have their income adjusted to inflation. Everyone else (salaried) gets a well below merit increase year on year. And that’s even before you take the socially accepted tip from 10% to 25 or 30%

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  • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So at what point do we stop increasing the percentage? 50%, 75%, 100%?

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