I've decided to sparingly indulge industries that expect tips, except individual businesses that don't fuss over tips. Where I am, that's just fast-food or grocery store deli when I'm lazy. I only get my hair cut every 18 months, so tipping is a negligible fraction of my budget. I used to be a generous tipper until the topic really got popularized, and had to confront that I'm enabling collectively degenerate behavuor. Took a bit to shake off habits indoctrinated by well meaning family.
I've decided to sparingly indulge industries that expect tips, except individual businesses that don't fuss over tips. Where I am, that's just fast-food or grocery store deli when I'm lazy. I only get my hair cut every 18 months, so tipping is a negligible fraction of my budget. I used to be a generous tipper until the topic really got popularized, and had to confront that I'm enabling collectively degenerate behavuor. Took a bit to shake off habits indoctrinated by well meaning family.