Many people want to keep the very concept and system of tips in place because it affords them power over someone:<p><a href="https://theoutline.com/post/4602/the-restaurant-industry-is-fighting-like-hell-against-raising-the-tipped-minimum-wage" rel="nofollow">https://theoutline.com/post/4602/the-restaurant-industry-is-...</a><p>>“Money is power,” said Brooklyn-based waitress Marisa Licandro. “If the customer is paying my wage, they have power over me. And customers having power over you means that you can’t speak against them when they try to grab you.<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/11/business/tipping-sexual-harassment.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/11/business/tipp...</a><p>>There was the waitress in Portland, Ore., Whitney Edmunds, who swallowed her anger when a man patted his lap and beckoned her to sit, saying, “I’m a great tipper.”<p><a href="https://jezebel.com/what-does-tipping-have-to-do-with-sex-and-power-1156118970" rel="nofollow">https://jezebel.com/what-does-tipping-have-to-do-with-sex-an...</a><p>>And his go-to line was so predictable, we would wait for it, anticipate it. “I always tip way more than twenty percent!”<p>>If that was the case, why were these guys so mad about paying only 18%, far less than they otherwise would? What was it about not choosing the amount they tipped, that infuriated them, even when they were getting a discount?<p>>It had to be at least partially about lack of control. Or, more accurately, lack of imagined control. This guy thought that, in a tipped environment, his server would perform better in order to get more of his money. That idea is false, as shown both by repeated studies and common sense, but that was irrelevant. His anger could not be redeemed by mere facts.