I don't mind paying for the convenience. I tip well. I do wish we lived in a country where living wages were a thing. But we don't. We're a giant slave colony owned by like 5 megacorps.

My question here is, how much was the bill? 5 or $600?

30%: underpaid

40%: immorally underpaid

50%; criminally underpaid

100%: Les Miserables

Custom: 0%

Every time.

If they give me the No Tip option, I usually tip a little bit. But fuck off with this idea that you should be tipped. It helps no one.

I'm not even paying the bill at that point.

Relevant post from earlier this month

Honestly if it starts at 30% then im 0% tipping and they can fuck right off.

We need to bring back the public stockades.

Isn't 10% the usual tip amount?

The issue with tipping is an issue with capitalism.

It is capitalism that has ruined nice things. Imagine the first person who tipped someone because their service was good and it was a nice thing to do. Next other people started doing it as well, which makes the profession with tipping more favorable.

This leads to a higher supply of workers and lower demand and the market adjusts which means lower pay because "they will receive tips".

Also it is easy to vilify the shop owners for doing something that the system encourages and even demands them. We don't know how or in what ways the shop owners are suffering because of the system.

Also to acknowledge their suffering is not to say that their suffering is equal to the suffering of their workers but rather we need to identify that everybody suffers in capitalism (except the very rich/elites).

The way to fix this is to stop tipping altogether. This will hurt the workers for sure but their suffering is necessary in order for things to change, at least under the current system.

Or alternatively, we can try and abolish the system altogether.

I've actually seen 2 recent practices that I hate more than this. While this is frustrating, at least you can input a custom tip. I've also seen them where they show 3 different dollar amounts that don't indicate percentage but doing the math, it's definitely way over the usual 20%. Then there's the one I hate the most which I keep seeing at places where you don't usually tip. You go to pay with your card and the little transaction/card machine shows different tip amounts, the default of which is already set. If you don't want to leave a tip, you have to figure out which button to push to do so. They're all different and it can be very confusing. I even saw one where each option was labeled in correlation with a button on the screen, except that they didn't match up. And what do you do then? Ask the person at the register how not to tip them?