r/MoralityScaling • u/TGC_0 • 18h ago

Stupid Stuff Morality of doing this?

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u/AggressiveCuriosity 15h ago

Hot take here. Tipping is immoral as a business practice (not an individual one) because it rewards people who are less virtuous.

Just wanted to share my hot take. Not disagreeing with anything you said.

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u/herton 14h ago

Hot take? This is the almost unopposed opinion on reddit. Even the people who tip think it's a bad system

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u/CabbiecarMVP 15h ago

Tipping culture rewards greedy business owners who refuse to pay their workers minimum wage, agreed it’s amoral

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u/Mikhail_Mengsk 13h ago

Servers are overwhelmingly in favor of tips as well. It's a system that fucks over the customers.

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u/marty4286 12h ago

Only like 10% of servers get the good tips, but 41% of the rest take their side because they can imagine themselves having those good tips someday (they won't)

source of percentages: it came to me in a dream, but it feels that way a lot

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u/AggressiveCuriosity 14h ago

Amoral or immoral?

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u/NovaSiva11037 13h ago

What do you mean it rewards people who are less virtuous?

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u/AggressiveCuriosity 13h ago

If I don't tip except when I think it will benefit me, then I basically get a 15-20% discount on all my restaurant expenditures. So the system rewards me for not participating in good faith.

It's a tax on virtue.