Show me exactly where I defended the system. Show me a single line.

You’re just leaving yourself a convenient back door to not tip while benefitting from tipping culture.

Trying to guilt people into tipping

But if you would like to go somewhere that expects tips, you better fucking tip

Literally telling people to tip.

If you go to a restaurant that expects tips and you don’t tip, you are keeping them in business while screwing over the person working.

If nobody tipped at those restaurants nobody would work at those restaurants and those restaurants would have to either start paying livable wage or go out of business.

I said if you don’t want tipping to continue, you can’t support restaurants that tip. It is the worst of all worlds.

And I agree. I avoid going to such restaurants if given a chance. But if circumstances require going to such a restaurant do you really think tipping at that restaurant is less beneficial to the restaurant than not tipping?

In that scenario you are perpetuating the system by participating in it. It’s a choice.

If circumstances force me to participate then I should go all the way? Is that what you’re saying? So if a vegan orders a plate that happens to have meat in it then the vegan should eat that meat? After-all they’ve already participated by ordering something with meat.