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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
If you feel you're not getting paid enough at your job, the answer is get a new job and stop relying on guilting people into paying you for doing exactly what you're supposed to.
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This is a bit OT, but I do see this opinion a lot and I personally think it is a silly one. With how the labor market is now, there are a limited amount of jobs that pay well and allow people to comfortably support a family. So while the idea of pulling oneself up by their bootstraps may work on a micro level, at the macro level, there will always be people forced to try and support a family by waiting tables, delivering pizza, working fast food, etc. As factory jobs continue to leave North America, the service jobs that replace them do not allow for the same paradigms related to jobs that we may be used to. It is no longer just teenagers delivering pizzas for extra cash.
Anywho, I think most of us can agree a system where goods and services have a set cost and tipping is saved for when people go above and beyond is most desirable. Unfortunately, many industries have ingrained tipping into their business model to offset costs. For me, I think we have to continue to whine and complain about how silly it all is so that companies and industries will be forced to adapt.