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Originally Posted by speediestevie
Paying a tip to a taxi driver is a pretty old concept. I’m not sure why you feel some sort of anxiety about it. And about tipping ‘culture’ - there’s definitely more pressure at places like coffee shops. But let me remind you that taking uber or taxi is a convenience. In other cities people actually drive themselves and mostly make their own coffee.
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Tipping cost me thousands of dollars every year. How about everyone that wants me to tip more fight for middle class tax breaks, build affordable housing for middle class people (not just the poor), and show me the same empathy you ask me to have for others. Who in this city is looking out for middle class people? After a while I just get jaded and I stop caring what people think of me for not tipping. It's a city full of scammers and hustlers trying to get in my pockets.
Let say person A works in the cash business, under reports their revenue so they can claim a cheap lottery apartment while making six figure under the table and person B the sucker is paying full taxes, won't qualify for lottery apartment, and keeps less of their money than the service person.
NYC is so corrupt that somehow it is the tenant who is expected to pay a real estate agent fee for renting an apartment and not the landlord.