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Nearly half of Americans say tipping has ‘gotten out of control’ (www.independent.co.uk)
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With those tipping screens now seemingly everywhere, Americans think that the practice has “gotten out of control,” according to a new survey.

At least 63 percent of US residents now having a negative view of tipping, up from 59 percent last year, according to Bankrate, a financial publisher and comparison service.

Yet, the number of Americans who have gotten used to tipping has gone up since the COVID-19 pandemic, when it slipped. There have not been significant declines in tips for service providers, the survey noted, particularly for hairdressers and restaurant servers.

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[–] propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe 10 points 15 hours ago

The argument told to useful idiots is that servers are encouraged to work harder when they rely on tips.

For the rest of us that aren't dumbasses, we can see that if a server isn't doing their job properly, then they can be fired and replaced.

We can also recognize all the servers that bend over backwards and end up getting no tips or something very small.

As usual, tipping culture only exists because stupid Americans have been conditioned to work against their own interests.