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Speaking for myself, it is not a mental block, it is disgust with the social design of tip culture. Including tips, waiters are better paid than teachers, and many other more essential professions that require higher qualifications. The pressure is disproportionate to their financial situation. Let's normalize paying everybody what they are worth and do away with the tortuous guilt trips.

To be clear, I am promoting eliminating tips, and paying everybody in the lower 90% of wage earners more for their work. I have no interest in shortchanging waiters.