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Comment · 6 years ago
If you're tipping when you're against this practice, you're doing a disfavor to everyone. IMO more people should stop tipping.
Comment · 6 years ago
in France you can get fined or go to jail for saying fascist stuff, works pretty well.
Comment · 6 years ago
I disagree, tipping is stupid because it is based on percentages. Why should I give more tip because I bought a more expensive item? Sorry but we don't have to agree, forcing tipping on others is an asshole move.
Comment · 6 years ago
I value the employee, I think they'll do fine with minimum wages, but they won't do fine if the small business goes down.
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
I'd be willing to pay more taxes to help the economy, but most people are against this. In the mean time I do my part by eating out more often and visiting small businesses.
Comment · 6 years ago
That's why you live in the country with the highest number of homeless people in the streets :) You should come visit socialist europe one day
Comment · 6 years ago
I'm not sure I understand, would you rather me not eat out and help out small businesses? My money, my way of helping. I pay taxes for the rest.
Comment · 6 years ago
I don't agree. I don't like tipping and so I do not eat out usually because of this.

Right now I understand that we need to do our part to help small businesses, so I'm making an effort and tricking my brain into eating out by not tipping. This is where I want to put my money: I think it's my responsibility if small businesses are going to survive, I don't think it's my responsibility if workers are not paid well.

Comment · 6 years ago
How? Tipping is friction and makes you feel bad, by not doing it I'm incentivized to eat out more often. What matters to me are small businesses, if I help the workers but not the small businesses there'll be no job for them tomorrow.
Comment · 6 years ago
I want to help small businesses.
Comment · 6 years ago
I personally I'm getting richer. Working for a big corp as a software engineer, I've done nothing but saving more money since the lock down started. I've also done much more shopping on Amazon, so I guess I'm giving back some of that money to other big corps. Doing groceries at Costo so money is not leaving the circle of big corps.

I've tried to eat out more often, even leaving less or no tips in order to feel more incentivized to not eat at home.

Comment · 6 years ago
can't stand someone not agreeing with you?
Comment · 6 years ago
Monero is cool, but it has fundamental flaws: its anonymity set. And ring signatures is not standard crypto at all. Less complexity than zk-SNARKs for sure, but there's a trade off in confidentiality.
Comment · 6 years ago
Unfortunately you're not thinking about regulations, which Zcash has to think about every day.

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