Tipping is a remnant of slavery. It is an evil system that helps maintain the racist hierarchy and it should not exist.
Obviously we should all tip as long as it exists, but it is meant to deflate wages deliberately. I try to determine which local restaurants that have a base pay rate of $2.13 for servers and I avoid going to those restaurants. And if I find out who the owners are, and they work shifts, I will let them know what I think of the exploitation of their employees.
Though it's all takeout these days, and it's not as easy to determine the pay of back-of-house staff.
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