10 Things People Innocent Hate For No Good

Let’s face it—we sure do like to hate. From opposing sports teams to the opposite party and everything in between, it often looks like we humans aren’t happy unless we’re steaming mad at something.

1-Tipping

Tipping is the simplest thing on Earth. At the top of a meal, you check out the bill and leave a further 15 to twenty percent, otherwise, you simply ante up and leave if the service was bad. It’s a small piece of social etiquette that in almost no way affects the standard of your life—and the mere mention of it’ll send otherwise normal people into a meltdown.Now it’s true that there are some interesting debates to be had around tipping culture. For one, there’s the very fact that it allows restaurants to pay their staff an abysmal wage and push the labor cost onto the customer. Then there’s the very fact that many other low-paid workers need to get by without expecting one extra penny. But the web activism and incandescent fury that surrounds the straightforward act of dumping a couple of pennies on a bar makes such reasonable debate impossible. Somehow, this small social obligation has blown up into an Internet-wide crusade that infects even the foremost otherwise respectable news sites. All due to a measly little bit of loose change.

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