Tipping wasn't designed to reward good service. It was designed to save the post-Civil War South from paying Black people a salary. This is the story of the "Pullman Trap," the 6 states that banned tipping in 1915, and the men who hacked the system to build the Black Middle Class.
We check the receipts on George Pullman, the "Ego Tax," and the uncomfortable truth about why waiters are still paid $2.13 an hour.
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