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Old 03-22-2026, 11:50 AM   #168
Ryan Coke
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Originally Posted by troutman View Post
I’m not tipping necessarily for the service provided. Just trying to help a student, or single mom, immigrant, or person down on their luck.
So what about non tipping jobs? People who work hard but don’t have a machine with a tip prompt? The person checking you out at wal-mart, the guy selling you shoes at sport chek, the ramp workers at the airport…the list goes on. Why does someone handing you a coffee or beer deserves the extra that lots of other jobs don’t get? How about they all do the job for the pay offered, and not rely on a selective system where some of them get extra arbitrarily. Do you feel like it makes you a better person giving a few people extra, but not others that a societal ritual has deemed aren’t worthy?

How do restaurant workers in Europe and Japan and many other places survive?
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