Your rantings are reaching insane levels.
In the real world, working for tips, an exceptional server will make more in tips.
Now back to your rantings.
Because of several factors, which were clear in my “rant”.
But we aren’t talking about the “exception”, we are talking about the norm. An exceptional professional baseball pitcher will be set for life, but that doesn’t help the typical high-school athlete.
Why does an “exceptional waiter” make more in tips?
It isn’t because the person being waited on needs to pay more to get better service, right? Because they got the exceptional service before they gave any money.
And it’s not because the waiter knew the person would give more money, because how would the waiter know what some person was going to do before they did it?
It’s the philosophy of “commons” — so long as most people are tipping better waiters more, you don’t have to tip at all to get good service, because the good waiter will be good.
EXCEPT — you have no choice in whether you get the exceptional waiter, or the crappy waiter. The waiter is randomly assigned to tables, and you are randomly assigned to tables. So, you can go to an excellent restaurant that has exceptional waiters, and then before you get to tip someone a huge sum of money, you get a lousy waiter.
Then you get 15% gratuity added to your meal (the point of this entire thread). And you are like “hey, if I tip more, I’ll get better service”, except you already got lousy service. And you might not tip at all, but the guy knew he was lousy, he was doing the best he could, and not getting a tip is really not normal because most people are trained to give 15% for almost any service at all where the waiter doesn’t swear at you.
And maybe you don’t, but most do, and you’ve got no control over it.
On the other hand, if you went to a restaurant where they only hired exceptional waiters, then you would be certain to get an exceptional waiter, and exceptional service, and you wouldn’t have to bribe anybody after-the-fact in the hopes that it would help the next person get better service.
If I was a waiter, I would get excellent tips. On the other hand, if I worked at a restaurant where they just paid waiters for their competence, I’d also make an excellent salary, and the customers would get the same great service from me, because the concept of being bribed to do your job is not particularly motivational to me.