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The type of service jobs that rely on tipping were never supposed to be real jobs that people had to live off of. They arose out of extreme poverty during the Great Depression where unemployed men and street urchin children would work for free bussing tables or running errands with the promise of a tip as the sole motivating factor. It was born out of a need for survival.
As America continued to develop and the economy improved somehow tipping fell through the cracks of progress and never went away. That’s how we’ve ended up with cities where the average one bedroom apartment rent is over $2,000 and servers are still working for tips. The entire restaurant industry is built on over a century of not properly paying their employees, and disposable service workers have no leverage over their employers to demand real wages.