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   kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 00:19:45 JST kaia
   in the US it's customary to tip tattoo artists with whom you negotiated a price beforehand. and artists get angry when you don't tip 20%. artists are self-employed. maybe just set the real price?
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 00:43:01 JST lainy

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     @kaia fixed prices are western culture colonialism
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     purple 👊✊💨 (purple@nya.social)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 01:06:15 JST purple 👊✊💨

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     @kaia@brotka.st in the bodymod culture i'm a part of, the shop takes a cut of the artist's fees so the tip is there to help mitigate that.
     
     the artists lease their workspace.

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     Nicro (nicro@fedi.absturztau.be)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 01:06:37 JST Nicro

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     @kaia For being such patriots, the US actually imported tipping from Europe. Late-stage capitalism has driven it to ridiculous extremes such that there are places with 50% compulsory tips. Tipping is out of control in many sectors of the US and the concept of a tip being a necessary part of the price to that extend is frankly sad. But these are the people that let customers add taxes themselves, to find out what they actually owe at the till.
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     p (p@raru.re)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 01:09:29 JST p

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     • lainy

     and math is ableist
     @lain @kaia

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     p (p@raru.re)'s status on Monday, 26-Aug-2024 01:11:04 JST p

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     thinking is just too difficult for some people
     @kaia

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