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The Itching Palm; A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916. Excerpt: ... XVII THE WAY OUT Summakizing the case against tipping, the following facts stand out prominently: 1. Flunkyism is rampant in the American democracy and this aristocratic influence is undermining republican ideals and institutions. 2. Flunkyism, in the form of tipping, is kept alive by the courts on the plea of "personal liberty." 8. Tipping nowadays is of precisely the same morality as paying tribute to the Barbary Pirates was in Jefferson's day, which the American conscience finally abolished. 4. On the economic side, tipping is wrong because it is payment for no service, or double payment for one service; thereby causing the exchange of wealth without a mutual gain. 5. Tipping is ethically wrong because one person accepts payment for a service not rendered, or for a service which the employer already has paid to have performed. And because gratuities destroy self-respect. 6. The hold which tipping has upon the pub lie is due to unscrupulous appeals to generosity, pride and fear of violating conventional social usage. 7. The public is exploited deliberately through books on social propriety which emphasize the custom, or which advise conformity thereto for the sake of peace and comfort. 8. The exploitation of the public is aided by the visualization of the custom in moving pictures and on the stage where it is treated humorously. 9. Employees defend tipping upon the ground that it compensates them for extra services not covered in their wages. An examination of individual instances shows this contention to be false in a vast majority of the number examined. 10. Employers defend the custom on the ground that the public insists upon giving gratuities and they must face competition based upon that condition. But it is shown that employers openly profit by t...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781151540812
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 30
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151540811
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 73 gr


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