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New York Plans To Force Uber To Add Tipping Option (theverge.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission announced a proposal today that could force Uber to finally allow riders to tip drivers within its app. The full proposal will be introduced in a few months and would require "car services that only accept credit cards" to let passengers tip with their cards in the app, according to The New York Times. "We have not seen the proposal and look forward to reviewing it," an Uber spokesperson told The Verge. "Uber is always striving to offer the best earning opportunity for drivers and we are constantly working to improve the driver experience." Cash tips have long been a part of a New York City cab ride, and Uber hasn't explicitly stopped riders from tipping its drivers in cash. But the touchscreen interfaces of New York City taxis allow riders to tip a driver even when paying with a credit card. Uber's app, meanwhile, has never had a similar option for including credit card-based tips.
I don't tip because society says I have to. All right, if someone deserves a tip, if they really put forth an effort, I'll give them something a little something extra. But this tipping automatically, it's for the birds. As far as I'm concerned, they're just doing their job.
This sort of nanny-statist bullshit is exactly why Uber had to be started in the first place.
So, good job, bureaucrats. I look forward to seeing the next wave of unintended consequences.
From a non American, tipping seems weird. If worker's income is too low, why lawmaker prefer to enforce tipping rather than minimal wage increase?
it sends a chill down my spine. Not because I'm afraid of the government (the government paid for the cancer treatment & research that kept a close family member alive) but because everytime I've heard it it's been followed by tax cuts for the rich and screwing the poor. If you hear that phrase run, don't walk, to the voting booth and throw whichever bastard politician used it out of office. They just tipped you off on whose side they're really fighting for...
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Has it occured to you that the american system of prostituting yourself for tips is wrong and that the companies should pay their employees fairly instead of relying on the state or the customers to allow them to survive?
I love you country, where civilisation means the law of the jungle: every man for himself, only the strong will survive. Not surprising for a country founded by christian nuts and where a sociopathic selfish bitch like Ayn Rand is revered as an intellectual role model.
Do your fucking job properly without needing me kissing you lazy ass with a tip to get what I pay for.
It's freaking horrible for US residents, as well. I just want to buy a service, I don't want to try to work through the calculus of how well the driver performed, how much I value it, how much the driver deserves, and how much social aggression I'll face if the driver thinks they've been shorted. I just need a ride. I don't need a passive-aggressive douche pressuring me to tip well on my way to the airport.
Great, more tipping. New York can soon have:
- more sexual discrimination
- more beauty discrimination
- more racial discrimination
- more age-based discrimination
- more obsequious in-your-business workers
Tipping sucks. It isn't statistically tied to anything good, particularly better service. To read/listen to more about the negative effects (and correlations) of tipping, the Freakonomics podcast has got you covered: http://freakonomics.com/podcas...
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