Systems designed for the US have made their way to Germany, and we're seeing more and more of this in a society where tip was very much optional. Many of my friends said that they refuse to tip with those machines out of principle.
I think we’re going to see the practices around tipping only expand in the future and permeate in to more countries. It seems like a system that has no real mechanism to be undone. It is next to impossible to convince employees that removing tips is a good idea when they will see an immediate cut to their income
The shoeshine boy Orwell wrote about in Homage to Catalonia, incensed that Orwell added a tip to his given wage?