- 66% and 50% aren’t that far apart.
- Instead of again blaming millennials for ruining something, let’s flip it: maybe millennials are smart enough to realize that tipping is broken and overtipping is not noble, it’s just ignorant.
- The suggested tip trend is presumptuous. Because they usually calculate the percentage on top of tax. That’s flat out wrong. Think about it. It’s tax: it’s going straight to the government, it is separate from the sale amount that you pay to the restaurant. Why would you tip on top of the cost of goods or services?
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Think about the gall of a business owner to underpay their staff then suggest to their customers an amount to pay on top of the purchase amount. The customer subsidizes the employer who won’t pay a living wage. We take it for granted, but it’s messed up.

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Don’t tip on tax.

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Because Lynn has largely built his career around tipping, it came as a bit of a surprise when Stephen Dubner asked him what he would change about the practice:
LYNN: You know, I think I would outlaw it.
Why ban tipping? Lynn has found that tipping, as currently practiced in the U.S., is in fact discriminatory. If that’s not enough to make you dislike tipping, consider what Magnus Torfason, from the Harvard Business School, has to say:
TORFASON: The more tipping you see in a given country, the more corruption you generally see in that country as well.

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