Minimum wages and universal basic income

[danbrotherston]

Oh, another fun result is that studies find that for servers the tip is not correlated with the level of service. It's things like did the server smile at the customer?

What gets me is that people really wanted to expand tipping to Uber. wtf?!

And probably correlated with how long it takes the meal -- which is typically all about the kitchen, and nothing to do with the server.

For Uber, the positive about the tipping is to supplement the rather meagre income of the Uber driver. Fundamentally the same problem as server wages.

Putting a bandaid on a festering wound isn't fixing anything, even if it's less ugly to look at.