Can’t read the article – and just like how I’m not tipping, I’m also not giving Bezos any money to read this.
I think the first paragraph has my thoughts on this though:
People are tipping less at restaurants than they have in at least six years, driven by fatigue over rising prices and growing prompts for tips at places where gratuities haven’t historically been expected.
The tip stuff came up during COVID and we felt compelled to help. Now COVID is gonna be with us and prices. That’s because prices are sticky-down.
It was popping up before that. You can thank Square Cash for suddenly dominating the POS terminal market, and leaving the tipping option on by default since they get a cut of that too. Then of course employers left it on so they could tell employees “well yeah, the job only pays minimum wage because you get tips!”. Once again, it all boils down to the greed of the wealthy.
BTW, if you have to tip every time you spend money, then you’re not making any extra money by getting tips, you’re really experiencing a net loss, and subsidizing the wages for rich business owners everywhere you go.
Can’t read the article – and just like how I’m not tipping, I’m also not giving Bezos any money to read this.
I think the first paragraph has my thoughts on this though:
The tip stuff came up during COVID and we felt compelled to help. Now COVID is gonna be with us and prices. That’s because prices are sticky-down.
I’m sick of tipping quite frankly.
Bezos owns the Washington Post, not the Wall Street Journal.
Ah, I’m an idiot! Thanks for the correction!
It was popping up before that. You can thank Square Cash for suddenly dominating the POS terminal market, and leaving the tipping option on by default since they get a cut of that too. Then of course employers left it on so they could tell employees “well yeah, the job only pays minimum wage because you get tips!”. Once again, it all boils down to the greed of the wealthy.
BTW, if you have to tip every time you spend money, then you’re not making any extra money by getting tips, you’re really experiencing a net loss, and subsidizing the wages for rich business owners everywhere you go.