Tipping was imported from Europe as a way for the rich to brag, not to uplift low-wage workers.
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Tips stop looking simple once wages, reporting, and taxes are part of the picture.
Bill Moore treats tipping as an operating problem, not a manners debate. He lays out the awkward split between restaurant servers, who can be stuck in a subminimum wage system, and food-truck workers, who are not.
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