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**VeniHemealm** · 06-01-2009, 12:23 PM

I don't think you are being a jerk, I just don't think you quite understand.

Well I do understand, and I do tip, but there is a legitimate cultural question as to why people feel they prefer a system of voluntary wage subsidy (via tipping) rather than paying the full cost of the meal in the first place, where the waiter/waitress makes a wage they can live from.

So rather than getting a $20 bill, you'd get a $24 bill straight up. When you think about it, psychologically, it's quite powerful having a system that is complicit in saying, you will only get a wage you can live from, if I feel like giving it to you.

...just a thought... but it's funny that it only exists for SOME types of workers.

06-01-2009, 12:23 PM	#76
VeniHemealm Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 468 Senior Member	I don't think you are being a jerk, I just don't think you quite understand. Well I do understand, and I do tip, but there is a legitimate cultural question as to why people feel they prefer a system of voluntary wage subsidy (via tipping) rather than paying the full cost of the meal in the first place, where the waiter/waitress makes a wage they can live from. So rather than getting a $20 bill, you'd get a $24 bill straight up. When you think about it, psychologically, it's quite powerful having a system that is complicit in saying, you will only get a wage you can live from, if I feel like giving it to you. ...just a thought... but it's funny that it only exists for SOME types of workers.
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