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[quote=Anonymous]Tipping is a horrible practice that puts the economic costs of working on the poor laborer instead of the wealthy owner. The worker goes to work without knowing for sure how much they will be compensated. It allows restaurants to pay sub-minimum wage to their workers. Why does tipping exist? Tipping in Europe was born in the middle ages, a master-serf custom where servants would receive an extra gratuity for excellent performance. In America, it started on Pullman trains shortly after slaves were freed. There were a lot of black men needing to work and not many people were willing to hire. So the head of Pullman trains, let the black men ride the trains and serve the people, with the freed slaves hoping to get tips to live on. It exemplifies economic inequality. “Tipping, and the aristocratic idea it exemplifies, is what we left Europe to escape. It is a cancer in the breast of democracy,” wrote William Scott in 1916.[/quote]
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