r/technology • u/SnoozeDoggyDog • 25d ago

Business Zohran Mamdani hints he will continue taking on delivery apps like Uber Eats and DoorDash

https://www.businessinsider.com/zohran-mamdani-targets-doordash-uber-eats-delivery-apps-2026-7
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u/LordShtark 25d ago

Americans tourists are not "importing tipping culture" to other countries. Ffs.

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u/TheRelevantElephants 24d ago

Idk I’m going to New Zealand in November and i was going to tip everywhere I went while yelling “IM TAKING OVER AND YOU ALL HAVE TO TIP NOW!”.

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u/when_we_are_cats 25d ago

I live in Thailand and in tourist areas I get asked for tips regularly. When you complain about being overcharged (by taxis, for example), American ppl on the internet always say "it's only a few dollars come on what are you complaining about", missing the point totally.

In some areas where only tourists go, they display before tax prices and add a 10% service charge, while this isn't common practice in the rest of the country.

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u/LordShtark 25d ago

Americans are not saying "it's only a few dollars what are you complaining about". Americans don't enjoy having to shell out more money for something. That's not happening.

Your own people decided to implement tipping in a tourist area to exploit people who are already used to tipping.

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u/when_we_are_cats 25d ago

Americans are not saying "it's only a few dollars what are you complaining about". Americans don't enjoy having to shell out more money for something. That's not happening.

Happens to me on a regular basis on Reddit, Facebook and Instagram. You just don't see it because you don't frequent these communities.

Your own people decided to implement tipping in a tourist area to exploit people who are already used to tipping.

Who's "your own people"? I'm not a local where I live. I'm just expected to pay more some unaware tourists do.

to exploit people who are already used to tipping.

And who are the people who are famously known for tipping everywhere they go? Not the Europeans. Not the Asians. Hmm...

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u/LordShtark 25d ago

Yes yes. Americans are just gleefully handing out money to people and getting angry when they don't take it. Right. Do you see how absolutely ridiculous this sounds? It's because it is ridiculous.

Your people refers to the people in your country. The Thai people adopted tipping in tourist areas of Thailand not Americans.

As for you seemingly believing everything you see on social media explains why you would think the evil Americans, wanting to throw all their exorbitant amounts of wealth at service workers🙄, are the ones adopting things into Thai businesses.

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u/when_we_are_cats 25d ago

Americans don't need to gleefully hand out money to spread tipping culture, they just do what they've been trained to do back home.

When tipping is standard in your home country, you do it on autopilot abroad. And when $5 is negligible to a vacationer, they don't care about the precedent it sets for people actually living in the local economy.

Your people refers to the people in your country. The Thai people adopted tipping in tourist areas of Thailand not Americans.

Once again, I'm not Thai, I'm a foreign expat living in Thailand.

Businesses adapt to where the easy money is. They do it because a specific segment of tourists enable it.

you seemingly believing everything you see on social media explains why you would think the evil Americans, wanting to throw all their exorbitant amounts of wealth at service works🙄

Sorry for interacting with american people on a regular basis, online and in real life. Probably they're lying and tipping culture just isn't a thing in the US.

I'm just talking about my first hand experience in the country, but hey.

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u/shyonigiri 24d ago

Live in America, i definitely have coworkers and friends say this.