On 14/07/2014 10:41 PM, Drew Lawson wrote:
In article
Fran Farmer writes:

Yebbut the 3 US posters other than you who are in this thread would be
considered to be on the extreme rabid right in other first world countries.

The US has long had a bad reputation for exploitation of workers. It
wasn't always so and at one time it had a fine history but not since
WWII at least.

Yep. We haven't had much of a left wing for several decades.

Indeed. Your left wing is what we'd think of as being fairly right wing.

It has reached the point that a non-trivial segment of the population
thinks having public schools equates to repressive socialism.

In addition tourists gripe where tips are expected to be handed over
after any form of service provision. Employers who expect customers to
pay for both goods received and then service provided by their employee
rather than them pay a proper wage are considered to be exploitative.

I forget where, but I read an interesting article a month or three
back on tipping. Turns out that when it started, many US states
considered it so vulgar that there were laws prohibiting it.

LOL. If you ever recall where you read that, could you post a link to
it please? Given your use of the word 'vulgar' did you get the sense
from the article that there was class related objection to tipping?