Oryx
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Tipping varies throughout the world, often dependent on minimum wage in that area - in the United States, minimum wage for tipped employees can be as low as $2.13 an hour, while in the United Kingdom the minimum wage is the same for all employees. On the plus side, tipping could create a culture of working for the best you can be - if you're not the best, your tip is lower. This would imply that we should extend tipping to all service jobs, not just the ones already tipped.
On the other hand, many people argue that this just allows jerk customers to decide whether the employee has enough money to get by that month and that this culture doesn't encourage harder work at all; in addition, because other jobs that are in the same kind of service vein aren't tipped jobs, it would stand to reason that we should match tipped jobs to those jobs.
There are a few ways to tackle this issue, feel free to answer as many or as few questions as you'd like:
-Which jobs should be tip-driven, if any at all? Waiters, taxi drivers, baristas, hairdressers, flight attendants? Or none at all?
-Does it make sense to have some tipped service jobs and some non-tipped? Why?
-Is it ethical to lower the minimum wage to take tips into account, putting the livelihood of tipped jobs into the hands of the customers instead of guaranteed by showing up and working like other jobs?
-Are tips an extra on top of salary, or a part of salary?
On the other hand, many people argue that this just allows jerk customers to decide whether the employee has enough money to get by that month and that this culture doesn't encourage harder work at all; in addition, because other jobs that are in the same kind of service vein aren't tipped jobs, it would stand to reason that we should match tipped jobs to those jobs.
There are a few ways to tackle this issue, feel free to answer as many or as few questions as you'd like:
-Which jobs should be tip-driven, if any at all? Waiters, taxi drivers, baristas, hairdressers, flight attendants? Or none at all?
-Does it make sense to have some tipped service jobs and some non-tipped? Why?
-Is it ethical to lower the minimum wage to take tips into account, putting the livelihood of tipped jobs into the hands of the customers instead of guaranteed by showing up and working like other jobs?
-Are tips an extra on top of salary, or a part of salary?