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[–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Yeah, it's dumb. One of the many things we do differently than the whole rest of the world in service to the civic religion of capitalism.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    It's worse than that. It comes from racism and slavery. When you started having folks freed up from slavery who were doing jobs like being a waiter, Rich folk set the system up under the guise of saying good service gets good tips, but really it allowed them not to pay them. And so they had to work really hard for whatever tips they could get.

    And that basically continues today. The system is absolutely bullshit.

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