Short excerpt from a Ramit Sethi YouTube video arguing that generous tipping is part of a "rich life." Sethi contends that objections invoking employers paying a living wage are often excuses to avoid tipping; he cites customer backlash when businesses roll tip or fee costs into base prices (restaurants, airlines) and urges viewers to tip generously by default.
When I posted about tipping psychology another very common comment that I got was well I don't want to have to tip because employers should pay a fair wage ho for the first time in their lives these commenters are talking about a living wage. What this really is code for is I don't want to tip more so I'm going to point at a societal problem that somebody needs to solve so that I don't have to tip more. That's really what's going on here. And we know this because when restaurants have actually built tips into their prices customers hated it. Same thing with airlines. People say I don't want to have to be nickel and dime for baggage fees. When airlines rolled them all into one customers hated it. So you think you want that but really it's an excuse for you to not have to change your behavior today. Tip generously by default. That's my message and that's part of a rich life.
