Square, Tips, And The Guilt Economy
The truth behind the new tipping landscape
10 min readNov 29, 2023
I, like most millennials, am a proud tipper.
I understand that in a lot of places in the US, servers are paid peanuts. There are some areas that require a higher minimum wage for tipped employees than most, but not everywhere. Federally, the minimum wage for tipped employees is less than $3 an hour.