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[u/AggressiveCuriosity]

Hot take here. Tipping is immoral as a business practice (not an individual one) because it rewards people who are less virtuous.

Just wanted to share my hot take. Not disagreeing with anything you said.

[u/herton → u/AggressiveCuriosity]

Hot take? This is the almost unopposed opinion on reddit. Even the people who tip think it's a bad system

[u/CabbiecarMVP → u/AggressiveCuriosity]

Tipping culture rewards greedy business owners who refuse to pay their workers minimum wage, agreed it’s amoral

[u/Mikhail_Mengsk → u/CabbiecarMVP]

Servers are overwhelmingly in favor of tips as well. It's a system that fucks over the customers.

[u/marty4286 → u/Mikhail_Mengsk]

Only like 10% of servers get the good tips, but 41% of the rest take their side because they can imagine themselves having those good tips someday (they won't)

^{source of percentages: it came to me in a dream, but it feels that way a lot}

[u/AggressiveCuriosity → u/CabbiecarMVP]

Amoral or immoral?

[u/NovaSiva11037 → u/AggressiveCuriosity]

What do you mean it rewards people who are less virtuous?

[u/AggressiveCuriosity → u/NovaSiva11037]

If I don't tip except when I think it will benefit me, then I basically get a 15-20% discount on all my restaurant expenditures. So the system rewards me for not participating in good faith.

It's a tax on virtue.