No one should rely on tips, but they do. Refusing to tip now just hurts people , real people, immediately. You have to live in the world as it is while trying to improve it.
The bartender can't eat your idealism nor find shelter from the elements in it.
Your experiences are different. My friends who work for tips tell me they rely on that money. Losing those tips would have an immediate and real adverse impact on their health and safety.
Have you ever worked for tips or been a close friend of someone who did?
People who make more in daily interest than the worker does from the shift , I don't think have the moral high ground on tipping.
Guy taking home $250k salary with health care griping about $10 extra. Really.
Sure, income and the economy should be different. The worker can't pay for housing with idealism.
I accidentally made a rom-com subplot in one of my games... Twice... And the players loved it both times.
The first time there was a divorced smith lady who sort of had a death wish, and the timid tavern owner who had a massive crush on her. Of course the players wanted to set them up.
The second time, the players had to infiltrate a masquerade ball. Sadly I'm starting to forget the details. I think there was tension around meeting them while masked and, like a rom com, trying to figure out what they thought about the PC. And then they tried to get the NPC involved in their heist, because they just happened to have a skill they needed. And of course it wasn't a clean heist, and the NPC had some trauma.
Mergers and acquisitions should be a lot harder than they are. Maybe even prohibited in nearly all cases.
Those people aren't a good match for you (or maybe anyone).
Meanwhile Canada is removing bike lanes for more car support, and the US elected a deeply anti-environment party.
My work uses python and it hasn't been bad for new code that has tests and types. Old code we inherited from contractors and "yolo startup" types is less good, but we've generally be improving that as we touch it.
A warrant was issued for Brackin's arrest on Tuesday and he was charged with seven counts of aggravated cruelty to animals and eight counts of reckless endangerment. He turned himself in and has since been released on bond.
Maybe he'll actually be punished.
Some people probably know them in real life. Like, you might have a friend who's like "Yeah this [slur] wouldn't update her mod so i posted [hateful thing] on her insta". You could talk to them. People listen to their in-group more than randoms online.
But then again, the worst sort of people probably mostly have the worst sort of friends, and reinforce their bad behavior.
As I said at the root of this thread, my ire is mostly reserved for rich people who refuse to tip. If you're struggling, you have to make your own decisions and compromises to get by. But the guy who makes more money from interest than the bartender makes all night, when they don't tip they're an asshole.
The problem you're describing, that people aren't paid enough and CEOs are too rich, is a very real problem.