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Part of the issue is pressure from the employees themselves to implement these kinds of systems— because what sane employee wouldn’t want more money?

I think we’re going to see the practices around tipping only expand in the future and permeate in to more countries. It seems like a system that has no real mechanism to be undone. It is next to impossible to convince employees that removing tips is a good idea when they will see an immediate cut to their income




> Part of the issue is pressure from the employees themselves to implement these kinds of systems— because what sane employee wouldn’t want more money?

The shoeshine boy Orwell wrote about in Homage to Catalonia, incensed that Orwell added a tip to his given wage?




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