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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel great when everyone is paid a living wage.[/quote]

I was about to say this. No one else find this post super icky and self-congratulatory?[/quote]

OP here. You know what I, personally, can't do? Guarantee everyone a living wage.

Here's what I CAN do:
1) Vote in ways I feel is consistent with my social values.
2) Advocate for policies I feel are consistent with my social values.
3) Create jobs in my organization (CHECK)
4) Tip well when and where I can
5) Start feel-good threads

I've done good in the ways that I have the capacity to do good today. Have you?[/quote]

Omg you’re insufferable. [/quote]

No, she or he is quite entirely correct.

If you do not want to tip, eat at home, do not stay at hotels, and carry your own luggage. Saying that people should be paid a living wage and thus you’re off the hook is too often a cover for contempt for “menial” workers. [/quote]

You are missing the lint. I think nearly everyone tips at sit down restaurants with waiters. I also think most people tip bellman, taxis, hairdressers and other people where tipping is generally understood to be part of accepting the service. [b]Most people don’t tip housekeeping in a hotel.[/b] It is not generally accepted that that industry requires a tip of you use them. Im sure I encounter thousands of people annually who do something to help my life and they are making $10-$11 an hour and I don’t tip them. I can’t tip everyone and neither can you. It doesn’t make me a bad person or you a good one because you tip maids. You can’t give to every beggar, every gofundme, every sob story, etc. that’s fine that you tip maids but to have a thread like this is kinda sad. [/quote]

I think of that as completely standard--same as all the others you mentioned.  [/quote]

The fact that you do so doesn’t mean it is stands or most people do. The fact that surveys quoted online prove most people do t is what dictates is the standard. We call that reality. Visit it sometime. [/quote]

Well, the survey I saw is that about 30% of guests tip housekeeping staff.  In my view, that's a decent enough sized subset to say it's a standard practice, though not universally done.  I think people know it's an accepted practice, but in the traveling moment, people don't think of it, feel they can get away with not doing it because no one sees it, tip in other occasions because they don't want to experience the face-to-face  awkwardness of not tipping but they really resent tipping so this is their chance to not do it.  That's the reality of psychology and human tendencies--we don't live up to many of our accepted standards.[/quote]

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