should there be more tipping or less tipping

*knuckles forehead as if to salubrious yank*

Do i mean salubrious rob not ah well

I think tipping should be expanded as a social practice because it's a good way to get money out of rich people, like every interaction w/ them we can try and guilt them into tipping us, the whole economy can be constructed on guilting rich people into tipping / making them feel good about themselves for tipping

so I guess you give money to every homeless person who asks you, right?

fyi the constant background hum of stress that tipping induces doesn't go away if you happened to have grown up here and grown up with tipping, it just never goes away, do I tip my surgeon???? should I???

If you're able to, then stiff the anaesthetist

I almost never give money to beggars but very regularly give money to buskers. that actually seems like the norm in nyc. I've never not lived somewhere w/ a large homeless population and people def give way more often here than other places but you gotta do something to build up the guilt. the tipple down economy will have lots of busking.

tipping is horrible because it makes you interact with the world through the filthy presence of money, almost all of your interactions are mediated thru money, that is you get to respond and send a message to other people by how much money you give them, instead of just paying a fixed price, fuck you america

otoh that's awesome, tipping is the only way you can give/receive money to/from virtual strangers without it being weird

tip jars should be everywhere

no its not

only virtual strangers who happen to work in the service industry

and only that small subset of service workers for whom its acceptable to tip

librarians are fucking awesome and I can't tip them! but it is mandatory to tip the shitty cab driver who took a 50% longer route than necessary

fuck you america

this is why everyone should have a tip jar and they should always put clever signs on them

"unlike cows we don't mind tipping"

"tippecanoe and me too"

no the answer is to get rid of all tip jars and also all forms of tipping

it makes you think 'is this person being nice to me just because they are nice or are they doing it because they expect a tip' which is just a terrible thought to have about every single person you interact with every day

"give me money if you like tupac"

(( btw you can tip me by paypalling me at y✧✧.dan✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ ))

maybe you should interact w/ fewer strippers dan

thinking about money is generally just an awful awful thing, money is an awful thing to think about

"i'm just really cool with you giving me money i promise i won't have an existential episode because of it"

I am uncertain if Americans have the spiritual fortitude to withstand being able to tell if their waiters are having a great day (spoiler - probably not)

serious question do you tip your ETSY seller?? you know just paypal him a lil' extra

xp I mean many Americans, no need to insult an entire country when 51% will do.

there is no such thing as a bad day in America

when I am feeling the least bit down I just go outside and lay on the street made of pure gold for a lil' bit, like 5 mins or so, then I feel better

then someone tips you

Kicks some gold dust into your face.

gold dust woman is secretly a song about tipping

I am uncertain if Americans have the spiritual fortitude to withstand being able to tell if their waiters are having a great day (spoiler - probably not)

― Andrew Farrell, Friday, February 1, 2013 9:08 AM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

have you ever been on yelp.com?

probably the #1 argument for abolishing tipping is yelp.com

I'm going to start tipping in bitcoins

if we could tip ilxors w/ bitcoins for good posts, this site would improve dramatically

or at least give them some of that sweet banner ad cashflow

"tipping is the only way you can give/receive money to/from virtual strangers without it being weird"

nope nope, this is always weird. it makes every act of kindness or decency subject to market incentive while all parties have to conspire to pretend it doesn't. straight up just giving money to strangers by comparison is a breeze.

is kickstarter really just a form of tipping

i tip 17.5% in restaurants just cuz that's the math i like to do in my head.

I want to get into a meeting with some venture capitalists and offer them t-shirts as return on their investment. "If you invest a quarter of a million dollars, you will receive this company t-shirt. If you invest one half of one million dollars, I will eat lunch with you and two of your friends."

"c'mon. be a dude. it's kickstarter grandpa!"

yah kickstarter is way closer to just straight up giving strangers money than tipping.

esp if they don't end up actually giving you the t-shirt or having lunch with you.

a fried of a friend was trying to turn his food truck into a restaurant on kickstarter. they were offering meals at the restaurant (at what would've been a hefty markup) as the return. put a business plan together and get some actual investors. hate kickstarter sometimes.

in asia, tipping doesn't happen. and, in most places, service kinda sucks pretty bad. otoh, i have several friends who wait tables in america, and they make pretty good money for it, even when you factor in the rare dickwad who doesn't tip. and service in america tends to be way better than in, say, singapore, where they get (shitty) regular paychecks instead.

so, tipping - let's keep it.

if we could tip ilxors w/ bitcoins for good posts, this site would improve dramatically

they have this system at metafilter, and it goes a long way towards keeping things considered, civil and interesting

whoa really how much money can you make

if this catches on some nabisco type dude can make a career out of being a good message board poster

perhaps i misunderstood the meaning of "bitcoins" on mefi it's "favorites" and is basically nothing more than warm fuzzies, sorry for the confusion. still nothing like getting positive feedback! it's not entirely unlike tipping

Bitcoins are an "actual" "currency"

You can use em to buy drugs on the internet