The Land of the Fee

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary

4.7 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Tipping is a norm in the U.S. But it hasn't always been this way. A legacy of slavery and racism, tipping took off in the post-Civil War era. The case against tipping had momentum in the early 1900's, yet what began as a movement to end an exploitative practice just ended up continuing it.

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0:00.0	Hey, Rampteen.
0:00.8	Hey, what did you have for lunch?
0:02.8	I just had lunch.
0:03.7	Yeah, I haven't had lunch yet.
0:04.7	I'm waiting on mine.
0:05.5	My stomach is growling.
0:06.7	What are you gonna eat?
0:07.5	I actually ordered delivery.
0:08.8	Ah, yeah.
0:10.3	Yeah, I say that with guilt.
0:11.9	Do you hear the guilt?
0:12.7	Yeah, totally.
0:13.6	No, I do it all the time.
0:14.4	I feel terrible afterwards,
0:15.2	but it's like, what can you do sometimes?
0:16.8	What is you, what is your...
0:18.6	Well, like I'm like, I'm like,
0:19.7	I want to support local businesses.
0:21.5	Yeah, yeah.
0:22.3	But then I'm also like these delivery apps.
0:24.3	Do they pay people well?
0:25.2	And then I think about the tip because I'm like,
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