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by version_five
1098 days ago
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You may be shadowbanned, your other comment is [dead]... What is it like in Asia / Latam? Could it be that people have less money or are less gullible? Or are social consequences different? The problem in North America seems to be that there's no downside to the behavior you describe, so no matter how minuscule the upside people are going to go for it. It's a drawback of capitalism, but I wonder what's keeping it out of other areas. Edit: not shadowbanned, banned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36420807 |
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I've spent some years in each of China, Singapore and Japan. I only speak about my experience. I don't think we do a lot tipping in Asia.
Except for tipping part, Chinese companies follows their US counter-parts and excels at the spammy and scummy part, used out all the dark patterns available. One interesting approach were using shake gesture in launch screen to jump to ads, and showing launch screen whenever you switch back, pretending a new launch. Another funny things, almost every company including one of the major ISPs wants to sell you loans at very bad APR.
Singaporean businesses are mostly honest, maybe they want to get you a bad deal on something, but consequences are immediate. You still get fair amount of spams and scammy things (like per-approved checks you are not a customer of) from some legitimate businesses. Food delivery and Uber alike US based companies do occasionally bug you with tipping options, but it's not a thing. I had received least spams and scam attempts in Singapore.
As a current resident of Japan. There's lots of spams too, just some random guy putting the unsolicited ads into your mailbox. Volume like 10/wk or so. As for the scams, yeah, it's also everywhere. You don't tip people in Japan, never do this, it's an insult, even UberEats stopped bugging me about tips.