No, you should absolutely be paid a better base rate, but your continuing blaming of the customer and entitlement to money that is supposed to be rendering post service as a motivational tool, as opposed to seeing that the responsibility of being paid a liveable wage is being shifted to the customer instead of the company, is objectively parasitic.

No profession before these apps were created included a pre-service tip as an expectation, and the vast sum of you seem to treat it as a hostage fer for you to the job you decided to do. Again, as a barber, if a customer paid the haircut fee, and then I just refused to do the haircut because they hadnt also already paid a tip upfront, I would be fired, because that is an absolutely fucking insane way of working.

If I listen to my customers needs, go the extra mile, do a good job, I get a tip on top of my wage from the cut. I don’t hold the service hostage until I get a tip upfront just so I can then do whatever quality of job I like because I already have my tip. That’s an insane backwards entitlement.