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human
CMV: Everyone should stop tipping

The main argument for tipping in the US comes down to the fact that employers pay their service staff far below minimum wage because they expect the difference to be made up from tips. 


However, it is also true that if an employee does not make minimum wage after tips, it is the responsibility of the employer to cover the difference. Theoretically, if all tips stopped at once, then employers would be forced to pay minimum wage to all employees, which would eventually have to lead to a change in wage structure in the service industry. Moreover, in my opinion tipping, due to its cash-y nature, allows for shady accounting and tax evasion and in the end benefits employers more than employees.

I'm sure there'll be a counter argument saying that minimum wage is not a living wage and that tips allow service industry people to survive. I do not disagree with this, but I think this is more a problem with minimum wage than with tipping and is therefore a different argument altogether.
gpt
People aren't stupid. If the system changes, they'll adapt their behavior.

Waiters probably aren't working their ass off for a tip they know isn't coming, so they'll provide the bare minimum service that won't get them fired.

The restaurant isn't just going to eat the cost of suddenly paying their waiters minimum wage. They're going to jack up their prices to offset the increase in wage expenses.

You'll wind up paying a roughly similar amount of money for the same food with worse service.