>>794012While it is shitty how employers goad tipping culture to avoid paying minimum wage, you’ve got to admit that tipping culture is a sign that American society is high trust since every American does it out of social conventions even tho they can get away with not tipping and, even with all the laws mandating tipping, it’s doubtful if they’re enforced at all.
Which is funny if you think about it since many chuds waffle about “high trust society” by citing Japan and SK when not only would many chuddish traits (such as distrust for institutions if they don’t conform with their partisan politics, and penchant for conspiratorialism) be more fitting for a more low-trust society if anything, but the examples of East Asian countries would require chuds to conform to social norms to such a degree they would detest it as “NPC-coded” which, Tbf, isn’t far off in describing what East Asian societies are like. I mean, even the conspiratards of the east either focus on foreign events like 9/11 or said conspiratorialism shows a strong degree of patriotism à la Qanon (e.g., “there’s a shadowy group undermining r nations, but we’ve got good guys in our government so that’s all good).