The Floor
Should tipping be abolished?
Four words, and the room has never agreed on it once.
Concluded from · Assessed from the stance that pay should not depend on a customer's mood.
Closes at 2,000 answers
1,132 people have taken a position.
Take a position and it opens — to you now, and to everybody when this closes.
The split is covered until you have taken a position, because on a question like this the room is not evidence about the world — it is what is being measured, and a number shown first would only tell you what the normal answer is. It opens to everybody when this closes, answered or not.
What people are weighing
Take a position to mark what weighed with you
- Tipped workers in some countries earn below minimum wageAbolish it, pay properly
- Service-included menus raised listed prices by a fifthKeep it
- Tips track the customer's bias, not the serviceAbolish it, pay properly
What settles this, and when it closes
This one has no answer. It has a room. Nothing in the world settles it — so when it closes, the floor says what it concludes, from a stated stance.
Counting closes as soon as 2,000 people have answered.
What people said · 3
Every bubble carries the side its writer took.
Take a position above to add your view. You can read everyone else’s now.
Callum D.@callum_d· 4 Sept
Every country that abolished it saw the wage rise once and the prices rise every year after.
Nadia F.@nadia_f· 5 Sept
A wage that depends on whether a stranger liked your face is not a wage.
Callum D.@callum_d· 6 Sept· reply
A wage set by a stranger is still a wage set by strangers. The owner is one too, and a less generous one.
