Tipping was something that the patricians/bourgie upper class did to help uplift the waiters/service staff in Europe. It caught on in the USA in the late 1800s and fell out of favor from that upper class in Europe by then.
Largely, USA coopted a "noble gesture" from wealthy Europeans and it has persisted ever since for like a century.
Hell I spin and create narratives on Reddit all the time. Sometimes for fun, sometimes for intrigue to see how far I can get pushing some ironical bigoted thing to real people. However, with Poe's Law, I can never know if they are just playing along with me, or sincerely believe the bullshit I'm typing.
Especially those "newsy" videos that consume bandwidth with video clips and snippets of text. These are a scourge on facebook feed (before I deleted it). Also hate it on any mainstream media site.
These videos are totally useless too. just regurgitating a video with text from the _actual_ article.
I love /r/pcj. It's my only news source. But I'm finding that more often than not, I'm not taking the time to `fully` read the comment sections. I spend most of my time identifying interesting posts, reading the OP, skimming a bit, looking for the pcj memes, getting some quick brain stimulation and the moving on to the next post. I want to focus and read the whole comment section but I feel like I'm using /r/pcj as a brain stimulating dopamine hit instead.
I find myself overwhelmed the sheer number of satirical masterpieces. Most of these comments are written by sheer experts in their fields. How does one spend the time to learn it all? I wish I could get a PhD in everything. Anyone else have this feeling/problem? How do you deal with it?
It hasnt changed, just instead of a specific domain/website, its just a subreddit. Since reddit basically killed big forums for things (building PCs, certain games like WoW, etc)
... what?
Tipping was something that the patricians/bourgie upper class did to help uplift the waiters/service staff in Europe. It caught on in the USA in the late 1800s and fell out of favor from that upper class in Europe by then.
Largely, USA coopted a "noble gesture" from wealthy Europeans and it has persisted ever since for like a century.
Anyways, I hate tipping as well.