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🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tipping culture has gone too far. We've all seen this building for a long time. |
| 0:05.0 | It happens everywhere any store you go to. You go to the cafe, you go to the grab and go restaurant. |
| 0:12.0 | Once it happened to me at a donut shop, |
| 0:14.8 | the clerk is there and you complete your transaction |
| 0:17.3 | and then he flips the iPad around and he says, |
| 0:19.0 | oh, just press a few buttons, |
| 0:21.0 | plays dumb, do whatever you want to do, that's fine. |
| 0:23.2 | Okay, yesterday, this reached a whole new level. |
| 0:27.4 | I was on my way to Cornell, I spoke at Cornell last night, it's going to be aired tonight |
| 0:31.5 | on the YA of-F YouTube channel. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm on my way to Cornell. I'm at the airport. |
| 0:35.0 | There's a little store called Chibo Express. |
| 0:37.0 | So I go in to get a drink, and there is no employee in the stop. |
| 0:42.0 | I go, I reach in, I say I want an ice tea. There's no ice |
| 0:47.6 | tea, okay that's fine, I get a pariah. So I take it to the self-checkout kiosk and I scan the parier. |
| 0:55.0 | And then it says to me, how much would you like to tip? |
| 1:00.0 | There was nobody I could have tipped. There was only the robot. The robot asked me for a tip. |
| 1:09.0 | 18%, 20%, maybe 25%. |
| 1:13.0 | And now I'm kicking myself, |
| 1:15.0 | because I did not tip, |
| 1:18.0 | even though I'm fairly certain |
| 1:20.0 | that the robots will take over the whole country. |
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