Freakonomics Radio
Why Does Tipping Still Exist?
It’s an acutely haphazard way of paying workers, and yet it keeps expanding. We dig into the data to find out why.
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9 min readNov 11, 2019
Americans have been tipping, and debating the merits of tipping, for hundreds of years. An 1897 New York Times article described tipping as the “vilest of imported…
