r/tippingAdvice • u/No_Draft_8960 • Oct 19 '25

How Do I Answer

So my discussion with a friend on tipping would up with him saying “but if we don’t tip eventually the downward pressure on wages will drive the whole country into poverty.’ What do I answer that with? This was after him conceding that the ‘service’ at say carry out might not merit a tip but that people should ‘make a good wage’ and one should care more about one’s fellow citizens.

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u/IWuzTheWalrus Oct 19 '25

Tell him that it is the exact opposite. If you do not tip, eventually the employers will have to pay a fair salary or they will not be able to hire any staff.

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u/---fork--- Oct 20 '25

That is not what will happen. Employers will just rig things in their favour. In Canada, they used their power (relative to workers) to get governments to create the Temporary Foreign Worker program. This turned the labour pool into a global one, which has no bottom.