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Originally Posted by punk'n
He said you should tip what you can afford. Chemda asked if 5% was appropriate and he said something like "if that's all you can afford". You should never tip 5% ESPECIALLY if you leave your house knowing you're going to do that and it's not even an issue of service. Booooo. Tips should be calculated into what you can afford. If you can't afford a decent tip, then you should forego the wine, or the dessert, or the restaurant altogether.
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I intuited that the internet was arguing servers shouod make less because people should tip, and he was saying poor people should be allowed to go out to eat too and therefore servers should be paid a living wage .
The part of the conversation you're referring to doesn't reflect his initial point, which is decidedly the opposite of elitest.
He answered a hypothetical question on the fly and his answer was clearly imperfect and made up off the top of his head.
Bad at discussion, yes. Elitest and shitty to servers, quite the opposite.