If you piss off food staff anywhere on earth your food may be tampered with. Now what people consider to be rude can be unique in different places.

I mostly decrease eating out which is arguably worse because now they get a 0% tip. If enough people avoid establishments that abuse tipping then the problem will solve itself.

Irl, culture. 15% is becoming an insult but is still normal or acceptable most places. If you ever want to return to a restaurant and not have your food tampered with its best to keep with some agreeable norm. At 10% I wouldn’t suggest being a frequent visitor anywhere for your health and wellbeing. To zoom out a little, there’s been no country I have lived in where the culture was 100% agreeable even to the majority. We’re all policed in some way or another by it.

It’s almost as if we should have taken climate change seriously 40+ years ago.

These days I’ve seen people trying to push 30% to 40% as the minimum tip. Either that or they sneak it in with service charges or gratuity fees with a suggestion of a 25% tip on top.

Don’t worry American citizens are also confused by the expensive tipping culture in the US. I still maintain 15% for a good job, 10% for a mediocre job, 5% for anything below. Giving above 15% is just subsidizing the pay the employer should be giving. It’s a symptom of the fact that wages have stagnated for over 50 years. The pay that once supported someone and even a child is now far below the poverty line for even an individual. So instead of increasing pay to match what it once was many businesses have turned to aggressive tipping over just increasing the prices of their service / products.

I mean the same thing in the US, a lot of silicon valley folk make much more than most doctors, although If I was thinking about finances like that while dating I would be after an Nvidia employee.

So the tourists get off and then don’t buy anything? Seems there’s more than enough money to go around but the E-corp is paying off local politicians to keep all the money in their hands.

Hasn’t that been the case for like a long time already? They control a substantial portion of the country’s gdp and their upper management is essentially royalty.

Aim for their sore throat I guess, I heard it helps and they seem like they may be into it.

Well now I know too much about your fetishes.

Ah that makes more sense then.

Makes sense, I’ve gathered that the majority of Lemmy is very angry about anything AI.

I mean people are pretty tired of yet another distro, but at least this person has some ideas. It looks to be more than just theming on a major base distro. Idk about the rest but I enjoy people exercising their freedom, it’s not called FOSS for no reason.

What’s up with the downvotes? I swear people on Lemmy can be so friendly and so intensely grumpy at the same time. Anyways, happy for you and you exercising your freedom. I’ll give it a look out of curiosity.