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Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for plucky misfits and

problem solvers. I'm your host Andrew Heaton. and today we're going to talk about tipping

Specifically because is it just me or is everybody asking for tips now when I was in high school you pretty much just tip

waiters. Now every food truck sales job dog walker I encounter asks if I want to

leave a tip. And yet when I want to leave a tip. And yet, when I try to tip a date, they get mad at me.

But still take my money, what gives, what's happening?

So today we're going to explore tipping, the underlying economic rationale, why we have this peculiar

institution, its benefits, and its irritations.

And to conclusively settle this matter for all time, I will even put up a poll on Patreon asking

whether people would like to scrap or maintain tipping as an institution.

You can contribute to said poll by going to Patreon.com slash Andrew Heaton, and everybody already already on there let me know your thoughts

all right to the show once again we have convened the world smartest

podcasting network. I'm very excited to talk to my friends and I'm very

excited for them to help me sort out tipping who I'm supposed to tip and why or what I'm allowed to be

cranky and stingy about. This is a topic that can be abstract but I think is

deeply personal to anyone that eats food outside of their house regularly, which is at least half of my audience and probably more than half of the other audiences.

We are rejoined by Michael Kaplan. He is coming to us from Vermont. Hello, Kaplan.

Hello, I just jumped out of the hot tub with some lovely people to come to come talk to your brain, so good to see you all.

That, I, that's like a quantum statement. It's, it somehow sounds very wholesome and very

CD at the same time. Like it really depends on your intonation on what I think's

going on there. Well I'll just say it's a CD motel we're at and the hot tub's

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