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Originally posted by madcow
The problem is that companies in America factor in tips to their employee's wages, and decide that they can pay them less. Thus people expect tips to bring them up to the wage they deserve, and since that always doesn't happen, they get frustrated.
I'm not saying that I don't tip, I tip pretty well actually, but the American system of tipping is inherently flawed. 
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I'd like to see a study comparing average wages/salaries for servers, say in restaurants, around the globe, and comparing it to the cost of living in those countries/cities/regions. Granted, it would take a boatload of research to do the study, but if it's been done before, I'd like to see it.
If anyone's interested in some US data:
http://www.payscale.com/salary-surve...11557/fid-6886
This shows various breakdowns of wages in cities and states around the US.
Only things missing is the comparison to cost of living.