Why tipping culture in America is so out of control

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00:00That way wealthy business owners can pay their employees less than dirt

00:05and rely on fellow working class citizens to support each other.

00:10What's the matter champ? Illiteracy got you down?

00:14No, I can read the screen. It's just, I don't remember it being this high.

00:1875% of Americans now say tipping is expected more and at higher rates than it was just five years ago.

00:24Inflation continues to skyrocket and you minimum wage bozos all got to help each other out.

00:32Yeah, why is that? I mean, I want to support people, but other countries do not have this culture.

00:36Well, as always, we have our friends in Congress to blame.

00:40See, in the 1960s, they passed the tipping credit,

00:44which allowed businesses to pay their employees less than minimum wage,

00:48so long as they receive tips from customers.

00:51That way wealthy business owners could pay their employees less than dirt

00:57and rely on fellow working class citizens to support each other.

01:01Think of it as trickle-down economics with no trickle-down and a lot of poverty.

01:07That is an evil system.

01:09Just making the lower class pass around the same five bucks for the rest of time.

01:13We got to stop this.

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