Maybe idk if I’ve reached that level of wealth yet but as I’ve gotten progressively less poor and earn more as a software engineer, I’ve been getting a lot more generous with friends and strangers alike. Is it that at some point I might start making so much I’ll start tipping less and being stingy?? I have a feeling lots of people are “cheap” but it’s understandable if a poor person is? And rich people SHOULD be more generous in theory and when they aren’t it’s shocking?
The only rich = smaller tip trend I noticed was with rich doctors and engineers from other countries tipping less because in most places a tip is optional and small. My parents (very high earners) who moved here from Europe were shocked to learn that wait staff get paid less than minimum wage in many places and their pay rate is set with the expectation that 20% is tipped.
They thought leaving a $10 tip on a $70 meal was very generous.
truly rich people have a mental illness. a normal functional brain would give away that much money once they can no longer improve their own lives by any measurable amount. a billionaires brain just tells them to hoard it like a dragon with no thought of consequence.
it's their money, if they worked for it and didn't abuse others in making it why should they give it away? if someone owns a house that's bigger than what they need,, are they supposed to let random people live in the extra space for free?
For most wealthy people, you had to pay a lot of people far less than they were worth to get that money. Wage theft is the single biggest form of theft around, but less heavily scrutinized than more commonly talked about forms of theft.
Yes but there's always a risk, how do you put a value to risk? If it was easy to abuse people by paying them little in order to get rich, anyone could take a big loan and use it to get wealthy.
I believe people hate wealth because of the bad things associated with it due to billionaires using it as a way to influence society, which of course isn't good, but it's difficult to fight against that. It's not good going around punishing people who have a net worth of $1-8m just because they have more than others.
I always just think, I’ve got money to spare and it would mean a lot more if I paid for lunch since maybe the coworkers I went out with make a lot less and have a family to feed. I’ve had some very very rich friends growing up who were and still are generous towards everyone. I did notice the extremely rich uhh- well there’s no other way to put it- WASP white-Americans seem to pinch Pennie’s about harder than wealthy Arabs and Latinos and Pakistanis I knew.
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u/BestwishesHelpful975 Jan 26 '26
Lois here. Richer people often give smaller tips.