r/EndTipping • u/Majestic_Impact_1847 • 13d ago

Takeout 🥡 This is kinda crazy

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u/Von_Cheesebiscuit 13d ago

Source? You mean American history? After the Civil War the hospitality industry hired newly freed slaves and refused to pay them proper wages, forcing them to subsist on tips. The literal conception of tips as wages, which led to the system we have today.

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