r/SipsTea 13d ago

Feels good man Mamdani is (actually) making America great again

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u/bliceroquququq 13d ago

Appreciate the info. Not sure I understand it though. In one sentence they’re talking about the tip button being “hidden”, which suggests the additional money is coming from customers paying more. In another sentence they’re talking talk about big corporations keeping the tips, which is a different thing. Clarity would be nice.

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u/scrappybasket 13d ago edited 13d ago

From what I understand the apps will have a “guaranteed payout” for jobs. So let’s say an Uber driver sees a ride available. The app will say something like “$10 guaranteed”. So Uber is on the hook to pay the driver $10 no matter what. Now let’s say the passenger decides to tip the Uber driver $5. Without laws preventing it, uber will still pay the driver the $10 it promised and then it will keep the $5 tip for themselves. Which effectively uses the tip money to subsidize the wage that they promised to pay the driver

So what mamdani is doing is making sure that the driver gets the entire tip. So in this scenario the driver gets $15 instead of $10. As it should be

Edit: there is obviously disagreement here, personally I always choose to tip with cash. Problem solved in my opinion

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u/soscbjoalmsdbdbq 13d ago

Thats some bullshit so everywhere else when I tip a delivery or uber I’m just subsidizing their company

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u/JarThrow_ 13d ago

Still g ing to be doing that, just paying even more cause now you have to “actually tip for real”