Finding food and housing is a source of stress for literally all life on earth. Only for a fortune few humans is it not a source of stress.
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HamsterDan commented on “No tax on tips” is an industry plant newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee
My take is that it is spreading not due to culture, but due to how all new point of sale systems / card terminals come with a "tip" feature implemented.
I'm from Europe, and have traveled here extensively. Tipping is pretty rare, but for the past maybe 5 years, almost all new payment terminals have the tipping option.
If the EU can force every person on earth to dismiss a cookie popup on every website they visit, surely they can pass some regulation to rein in the expansion of tipping.
For example, just make it a requirement that the default tip is 0% in point of sale systems.
HamsterDan commented on “No tax on tips” is an industry plant newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee
Don't forget to reduce your tips by the percentage they were previously being taxed, since it is all charity anyway.
Hopefully this becomes another straw that will eventually break the camels back and we get rid of tipping all together. Every restaurant in the world does not need tips to survive, except for the ones in the US.
This is going to expand tipping dramatically. I don't understand how you could have any optimism that tipping will go away after this is passed.
Businesses are going to work hard to blur the line between a tip and a required payment so that they can call their income a tip while customers think they're obligated to pay it.
HamsterDan commented on “No tax on tips” is an industry plant newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee
What confuses me most is when you are given the option to give a tip before any service has been given. On deliveroo, for example, I have the option to tip the driver while I'm at the checkout. Why would I give a reward for good service when I have no idea if the service is even good? There's already a rider fee as part of my bill, so it doesn't make any sense to me to give them more money at that point
That's not a tip, it's a bid. Expect a lot more businesses to start operating like this if no tax on tips goes into effect.
> "The war and the condition of the Palestinian population is 100% the responsibility of their government, Hamas, that continues fighting and holding Israeli hostages."
No. Israel is an occupying power, and they're heavily restricting food and aid to civilians.
Collective punishment is prohibited by article 33 of the 4th Geneva convention. Starvation as a method of war is prohibited by article 54 of the additional protocols. Shooting civilians is a war crime.
Hamas is guilty of a lot of things, but they aren't forcing Israel to shoot and starve civilians. That's not a necessary part of Israel's war effort. It doesn't help defeat Hamas or make Israel safer.
Restricting food to civilians has been a legitimate war tactic forever. It's called a siege. If this is unacceptable to Palestine, they need to return the Israeli hostages.
Israel is under no obligation to provide aid to their opponent in a war. Anybody suggesting such is transparently anti-Semitic. Nobody would ever make such a ridiculous claim if it were their own countrymen held hostage.
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It's telling on the users in question and their relationship with reality.