[lbo-talk] tipping and control

[michael yates]

Bill Bartlett makes some comments about tips that I think are pretty yhoughtless. By his logic, I should never give a homeless person money because this lets the government off the hook. Or my father shouldn't have bought his nephews and nieces shoes as that would have sent the wrong message to the coal mine operators who paid my uncle so poorly. Not to mention that giving a cleaning woman, who is often an undocumented worker without access even to the protections of the labor laws, some money or a coat, somehow means that she will be less likely to be paid a living wage. Bill, your presumed  purity of politics masks some real ignorance of the ways of the world. 

But maybe you're just a cheap fuck! Waiters here just hate people like you who say, the custom in our country is not to tip. When in Rome . . .