Just to be clear, for pizza places that charge a delivery fee, most of the time that does not go to the driver. You should still tip your driver.
Why are we taught by people to tip some personell and not to tip others?
Because the first group has a very low income. That's why. Because corporations cannot be trusted to treat their people nicely. That's why. Because the first group usually works hard and shows effort, while the others don't. That's why.
I don't mind to tip when someone has done an excellent service, but i always try to make sure my tip goes to that person directly and not some weird strange thing like a jar or a fund the corporation came up with.
> Because corporations cannot be trusted to treat their people nicely. That's why.
No, it's noblesse oblige: I am well off, and therefor it is my duty to show my appreciation to those who perform services for me.
Really helps cement the power relationship and emphasise the class differences.
That's the incentive to work hard so that you are not part of that group. That group doesn't have much to offer, and often didn't work hard to offer anything society valued. I knew, from an early age, that the consequence of not trying at school was ending up in a dead-end job.
> Because the first group usually works hard and shows effort, while the others don't
Citation needed - their work is hard because they have little leverage. Some have the deck stacked against them, fair enough, but that first group exists in places with less opportunity inequality, and far more welfare than in the US.
Many people spend most of their lives on their careers, trying to improve their worth to society, and offer things deemed valuable. Few go into accounting for the love of it, but because society desires accountants.
EDIT: there are exceptions. Temporary jobs held by students, people from impoverished backgrounds, or who were never motivated to succeed, low-skilled immigrants that fall into these last two categories. These are exceptional, sympathetic situations (except students, their condition is temporary), but society should seek to reduce these groups, rather than normalise them by developing some kind of coping mechanism. Welfare is a good safety net for all citizens, but low-paid work is too. The problem is groups who are stuck in ow-paid work with little opportunity to escape; in those cases it's not "greedy" corporations to do anything - it's exclusively the governments role to participate in any social engineering efforts.
It's an incentive, but not the solution. It's way way more complex than a "just work hard and everything will be ok" stigma.
>Some have the deck stacked against them, fair enough,
Over 80% of the world population lives in poverty. I don't know what kind of decks are dealt, but casinos would be purchasing these decks by the millions.
That's not a stigma, it's an ideal. There is no better solution.
> Over 80% of the world population
I was talking about capitalist america, not the world.
BTW, if a company puts out a tip jar, by law that tip jar must actually go to the employees. The company cannot come along and take the contents of the jar for itself (and if they try, employees can sue them).
These people depend very heavily on having an income/job.