[lbo-talk] tipping and control, again

[Chuck Grimes]

I think the point in the original post has been lost.... The idea was that 
some how
tipping, that is buying service entitled the customer to become the `owner' 
in a particularly obnoxious way. The owner, owns the servant in a 
master-slave dialectic. It's a pretty common experience if you worked in a 
service occupation.

I used to encounter this all the time in minor ways where the wheelchair 
owner was very picky about how I worked on their chair. I understood and 
didn't mind within certain limits. But every so often, the relationship 
moved out of acceptable and into really oppressive terrain.

Very occasionally it reacted intolerable limits. And I would go off. Very 
ugly scenes followed, where your Worship went to see the Boss. Lectures 
followed on my behavior. etc.

That's what the waitress and her obnoxious customer reminded me of. It's 
very common in heavily class conscious regions and contexts.

In the political economy on a grand scale we are being subjected to this 
domination all the time through officialdom and its obsequious kowtow to 
moneyed interests. It's embodied in the now legal doctrine that money is 
free speech. I don't think there is any doubt that Obama is Blankfein's 
bitch.

CG