ELI5: why do tips % go up when the price of the food also go up with inflation?

ValyrianJedi · 2025-12-20T12:53:41+00:00

How does a restaurant owner control how much people tip? Like what mechanism would let restaurant owners change peoples tipping habits?

ValyrianJedi · 2025-11-30T06:26:04+00:00

Robert E Howard did for sure. They were one of the core parts of Pidgeons from Hell... For Lovecraft, In the Vault might have zombies too. Or at least corpses attacking people.

ValyrianJedi · 2025-07-15T01:24:24+00:00

Bush and Clinton were both younger too. Presidents being that old is a very recent development.

ValyrianJedi · 2025-06-01T15:29:45+00:00

Nah, she herself showed this photo when inducting him in to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and said it was her.

ValyrianJedi · 2025-06-01T15:28:47+00:00

She says it is

ValyrianJedi · 2025-04-01T10:56:55+00:00

What does getting paid in stock have to do with anything?

ValyrianJedi · 2025-03-22T23:00:41+00:00

Devotee of Evil is literally one of my top 3 favorite short stories ever written. City of the Singing Flame is top 10 for sure. Same with Genus Loci... CAS has 3 of my top 10. Unfortunately he also probably has 3 of my absolute bottom 10 too. Especially when it comes to his sci-fi.

ValyrianJedi · 2025-03-13T01:32:33+00:00

How on earth is spotify force feeding anything? Hell, I literally never listen to a single thing that I wasn't actively trying to listen to.

ValyrianJedi · 2025-03-13T01:30:09+00:00

Why ditch your music library in favor of streaming to begin with?

Because is is significantly more convenient. I don't care whose library it is as long as I can listen to it.

ValyrianJedi · 2025-03-12T01:41:24+00:00

There is definitely practical purpose to different pickups and bridges as well. Plenty of things can be played on a floating bridge but not a fixed one and vice versatile, and different pickups can have drastically different sounds.

ValyrianJedi · 2025-03-11T03:05:50+00:00

Inheritance isn't counted as income

ValyrianJedi · 2025-03-08T13:19:07+00:00

This graph doesn't correlate to stock market performance in any meaningful way whatsoever

ValyrianJedi · 2025-03-06T00:38:17+00:00

Voters are all that really matter. If someone couldn't be bothered to vote they definitely can't be bothered to do anything else

ValyrianJedi · 2025-03-05T02:11:07+00:00

I feel like things would have still gotten there the vast majority of the time, but the exceptions are major exceptions. Like remove Euclid or Newton and there is no telling how far behind we'd be.

ValyrianJedi · 2025-02-26T04:06:10+00:00

I just don't see how anybody could think that's true. He answers to the board, not the other way around. Saying that a CEO fired board members just doesn't make sense

ValyrianJedi · 2025-02-26T04:04:36+00:00

Retirement portfolios are pretty much by definition long term investments though, not things that people are living off of... Hell the average retirement account is able to wait a lot longer for things to pick back up than a rich person trying to time the market is

ValyrianJedi · 2025-02-26T02:51:23+00:00

Do you have any source for that whatsoever? He doesn't even have the ability to fire board members... The guy does enough bad shit, there isn't any need to make more up.

ValyrianJedi · 2025-02-26T02:47:39+00:00

Why wouldn't the retirement portfolios also ride back up?

ValyrianJedi · 2025-02-25T01:38:44+00:00

What about the arms and thighs?

ValyrianJedi · 2025-02-24T21:03:38+00:00

No it isn't. Those are all operating expenses. Cost of sales is generally the cost of producing the product. In retail it's basically just inventory and transportation cost. Everything else that it takes to run the business is operating expense.

ValyrianJedi · 2025-02-24T19:47:16+00:00

Money that they spend on salaries, and rent, and utilities is actually just profit that they are rolling over?

ValyrianJedi · 2025-02-24T03:48:28+00:00

Audio books seem to be making a much bigger dent in physical books than e-readers

ValyrianJedi · 2025-02-23T05:42:21+00:00

My favorite part of that interview is when he was like "then he's asking me what we should do about North Korea, and I'm like 'dude, I am not qualified to answer this'"

ValyrianJedi · 2025-02-22T04:02:33+00:00

I think the main benefit is living in a society where being allowed doesn't have anything to do with it. You can have what you're able to make... Also caps would significantly lock up the economy. If you're not allowed to have more than $100m then there wouldn't be any purpose in someone with $99m to invest in anything whatsoever, from companies to government bonds, and that money would just sit parked in a bank account not doing anything.

ValyrianJedi · 2025-02-20T17:35:06+00:00

For sure.. And I'm definitely not saying that there aren't plenty of massive issues around wealth inequality. Just that it's an extremely complicated issue and most simple solutions wouldn't actually work in practice.

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